{"id":2452771,"date":"2019-12-31T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/times-journalistic-standards-higher-than-beatons\/"},"modified":"2020-01-01T08:32:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T15:32:02","slug":"times-journalistic-standards-higher-than-beatons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/times-journalistic-standards-higher-than-beatons\/","title":{"rendered":"Times\u2019 journalistic standards higher than Beaton\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I strongly support The Aspen Times for its decision to terminate Glenn Beaton\u2019s column.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">This decision is mistakenly being characterized by some readers as an ultra-liberal bias supposedly inherent in the Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The decision was proper for a host of reasons. It is a privilege to have a newspaper column in the Times. Certain duties and responsibilities necessarily accompany that privilege. Beaton repeatedly violated those responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I occasionally notified the Times and Beaton when I noted multiple factual errors, little, if any serious research, and inflammatory name-calling, which shed absolutely no light on the issues raised. Beaton\u2019s writing was substandard, and below the norms of the paper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In the future, I urge The Aspen Times to include a column with a conservative viewpoint by a writer who understands what good writing and journalistic standards entail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Bob Morris<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/times-journalistic-standards-higher-than-beatons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I strongly support The Aspen Times for its decision to terminate Glenn Beaton\u2019s column. This decision is mistakenly being characterized by some readers as an ultra-liberal bias supposedly inherent in the Times. The decision was proper for a host of reasons. It is a privilege to have a newspaper column in the Times. Certain duties [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 23:28:29","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452788,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452771\/revisions\/2452788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}