{"id":2242,"date":"2016-07-08T02:33:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T02:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2016-07-09T01:07:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T01:07:14","slug":"a-lack-of-reporters-sufficiently-passionate-to-get-at-this-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2242","title":{"rendered":"A lack of reporters \u2018sufficiently passionate to get at this story\u2019? \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2243\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2243 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160708Daniels.jpg\" alt=\"Frank Daniels III\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160708Daniels.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/160708Daniels-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Daniels III<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">July 8, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs for an \u2018investigative\u2019 piece about the Kelly case that would get to the \u2018truth,\u2019 we will have to see\u00a0if we have any staff members who are sufficiently passionate to get at this story&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From News &amp; Observer executive editor Frank Daniels III\u2019s reply (June 10, 1992) to a plea for coverage from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1070\">Jane W. Duffield<\/a>\u00a0of the Committee to Support the Edenton Seven<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Daniels\u2019 predecessor, Claude Sitton, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=884\">lamented later<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cmy greatest mistake (was) my failure as editor&#8230; to make sure we had a top-notch investigative reporter on the Little Rascals case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve asked Daniels to share his own recollections of the paper\u2019s coverage, but haven\u2019t heard back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 8, 2016 \u201cAs for an \u2018investigative\u2019 piece about the Kelly case that would get to the \u2018truth,\u2019 we will have to see\u00a0if we have any staff members who are sufficiently passionate to get at this story&#8230;.\u201d \u2013 From News &amp; Observer executive editor Frank Daniels III\u2019s reply (June 10, 1992) to a plea for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2613,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/2613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}