{"id":805543,"date":"2020-03-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=380779"},"modified":"2020-03-22T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T16:00:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-publication-of-morgan-liddick-column-was-irresponsible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-publication-of-morgan-liddick-column-was-irresponsible\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Publication of Morgan Liddick column was irresponsible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/LettersWebCard-SDN-1-1024x638.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Your inclusion of <a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/opinion-morgan-liddick-blind-coronavirus-panic\/\">Morgan Liddick\u2019s column<\/a> in yesterday\u2019s edition was irresponsible. It was the last paragraph of his column that was especially disturbing. We are in the midst of a public health crisis. Lives are at stake. Please be more responsible. The public needs to hear from experts, not a conspiracy theorist. The Society of Professional Journalists has a code of ethics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeek the truth.\u201d \u201cMinimize harm.\u201d Although these standards apply mostly to reporting, during a national emergency, I urge you to apply them to your editorial page, as well.<\/p>\n<p>I am a journalist myself who has taught at the university level. There are other conservative columnists who do not indulge in the ill-informed and destructive scapegoating of the far right. Their views are grounded in science and the facts. Surely, you can find an alternative. Until then, your readers can turn to conservatives like Bill Kristol and his new online publication The Bulwark, David Frum at the Atlantic Monthly and Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post. All of these authors post regularly to their Twitter accounts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-publication-of-morgan-liddick-column-was-irresponsible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your inclusion of Morgan Liddick\u2019s column in yesterday\u2019s edition was irresponsible. It was the last paragraph of his column that was especially disturbing. We are in the midst of a public health crisis. Lives are at stake. Please be more responsible. The public needs to hear from experts, not a conspiracy theorist. The Society of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 18:24:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}