{"id":1413,"date":"2011-08-05T14:34:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:34:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:34:42","slug":"npr-ombudsman-weighs-in-on-hot-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/08\/05\/npr-ombudsman-weighs-in-on-hot-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Ombudsman weighs in on hot topic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard the recent report on <em>Morning Edition <\/em>from Alix Spiegel, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2011\/08\/01\/138820526\/can-therapy-help-change-sexual-orientation\">Can Therapy Help Change Sexual Orientation<\/a>?&#8221; It drew a lot of heat from listeners around the country. You can count me in this large group that had serious objections to the structure and balance of the story. Apparently the NPR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/ombudsman\/2011\/08\/05\/138963061\/the-furor-over-gay-conversion-therapy?sc=nl&amp;cc=omb-20110805\">Ombudsman<\/a> thinks there were weaknesses in the piece, and even the producer conceded problems with it, as did the acting VP for News at NPR.<\/p>\n<p>Did you hear it when it aired? Did it sound at all problematic? Having read the Ombudsman piece, do you agree with the critique?<\/p>\n<p>Interested in your responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard the recent report on Morning Edition from Alix Spiegel, &#8220;Can Therapy [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}