{"id":1072,"date":"2009-09-21T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/09\/21\/journalismtourism\/"},"modified":"2009-09-21T06:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T10:07:00","slug":"journalismtourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/09\/21\/journalismtourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism\/tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m driving down to Troy today to see President Barack Obama&#8217;s economic address at a local community college. <\/p>\n<p>The truth?  There will be at least two great public radio reporters there already: our Albany correspondent, Karen DeWitt, and someone from NPR. <\/p>\n<p>So why am I going? <\/p>\n<p>Call it journalism-tourism.  One of the great perks of being a reporter is the Forrest Gumpian fun of being in cool places and meeting fascinating people.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had the experience the last few years of watching two sitting Presidents live and fairly up close and personal: <\/p>\n<p>Bill Clinton in Lake Placid (stumping for his wife) and George W. Bush in Wilmington (pushing an environmental plan).<\/p>\n<p>I always hope to find a fresh angle, a part of the story that other journalists aren&#8217;t finding.  But really, today, that&#8217;s secondary.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a reporter goes just out of sheer cussed curiosity.  Tune in tomorrow morning for the story&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m driving down to Troy today to see President Barack Obama&#8217;s economic address at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}