{"id":766,"date":"2009-05-19T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/19\/when-the-mob-ruled-upstate-and-newspapers-cracked-the-case\/"},"modified":"2009-05-19T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:08:00","slug":"when-the-mob-ruled-upstate-and-newspapers-cracked-the-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/19\/when-the-mob-ruled-upstate-and-newspapers-cracked-the-case\/","title":{"rendered":"When the mob ruled upstate&#8230;and newspapers cracked the case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Utica-Observer dispatch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uticaod.net\/site_html\/SPECIAL_CONTENT\/MOB\/MOB_index.html\">has a great series on-line<\/a> about the Utica-region&#8217;s mob history. <\/p>\n<p>It reads one part like a William Kennedy novel, one part like The Godfather&#8230;from the Sicilian crime bosses to the the car-bombings and the crooked public officials.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great reading and it&#8217;s also an opportunity to hammer again on this point: <\/p>\n<p>A coalition of Utica journalists won a Pulitzer back in 1959 for courageously uncovering the city&#8217;s crooked network of bent cops and gangsters.<\/p>\n<p>Who does that kind of civic journalism once newspapers are gone?  Who will serve as the watchdogs on complicated issues like this?<\/p>\n<p>If the police are crooked, the politicians are on the take, and your local newspaper went bankrupt years ago &#8212; where will you turn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Utica-Observer dispatch has a great series on-line about the Utica-region&#8217;s mob history. It reads [&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\/766"}],"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=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}