{"id":13869,"date":"2018-01-20T09:28:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T15:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13869"},"modified":"2018-01-20T09:28:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T15:28:49","slug":"a-story-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/01\/20\/a-story-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"A Story To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a partisan is hired as a journalist, it can upset an organization. Or so says<\/a> Eric Wemple of the eponoymous blog on WaPo<\/strong><\/em>, as he discusses the performance of John Solomon, a recent hire at The Hill<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

Solomon is among the best-traveled journalists around the Beltway. He has worked at the Associated Press, The Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Center for Public Integrity, Newsweek\/The Daily Beast, the Washington Guardian, Circa and The Hill. As he moves around, he leaves an interesting trail<\/a> for media reporters to follow<\/a>. Last summer, for instance, Solomon announced that he was jumping from Circa, a general news site owned by the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group, to The Hill. \u201cThe Hill\u2019s spectacular rise as the leading outlet for political news coverage speaks to a far-reaching vision for digitally-powered growth,\u201d\u00a0Solomon said in a statement. \u201cJoining The Hill team at this time, when the outlet is seeing just the first fruits of that vision, is an incredibly exciting opportunity. I\u2019m looking forward to working with some of today\u2019s most talented journalists to create a new political genre for the mobile generation, providing unmatched, non-partisan political news and bipartisan shows in the digital formats they love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Employees at The Hill would take issue with the \u201cnon-partisan\u201d promise. According to sources consulted by this blog, there\u2019s frustration that Solomon appears so tight with Hannity, the prime-time Trump apologist who has admitted straight-up that he\u2019s no journalist<\/a>. Over the past three months, Solomon has turned in a dozen or so appearances on \u201cHannity.\u201d The TV hits may be good for traffic at TheHill.com<\/a>, though the implications for up-and-coming journalists at the publication are less salutary: Their employer comes off as a propaganda mill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure what to make of it – but, according to Eric, some of Solomon’s worst stories have electrified the conservative media world to no good effect. I’ll be interested in hearing how this all comes out in the wash – if it ever comes out at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a partisan is hired as a journalist, it can upset an organization. Or so says Eric Wemple of the eponoymous blog on WaPo, as he discusses the performance of John Solomon, a recent hire at The Hill: Solomon is among the best-traveled journalists around the Beltway. He has worked \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13873,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13869\/revisions\/13873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}