{"id":78,"date":"2010-07-20T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=78"},"modified":"2010-07-20T07:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T14:54:00","slug":"no-comment-from-barry-saunders-is-disappointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"No comment from Barry Saunders is disappointing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/TEW8i2MVMNI\/AAAAAAAAAGs\/1Ree5ii1ASc\/s1600\/newspapers.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_na0H8CJUvY4\/TEW8i2MVMNI\/AAAAAAAAAGs\/1Ree5ii1ASc\/s200\/newspapers.jpg\" style=\"cursor: move;\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Reporters are always asking people to fess up, so shouldn\u2019t they do that themselves? Just look at The News &amp; Observer Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The paper\u2019s Ken Tysiac ran a strong story about problems colleges have regulating agents (and the paper, to its credit, avoided Monday\u2019s flimsy report in the National Football Post). But one player under fire is South Carolina tight end Weslye Saunders, who played at Durham Riverside and is the son of N&amp;O Metro columnist Barry Saunders.<\/p>\n<p>Barry Saunders is refusing to comment on the case, which has to make for awkward moments in the newsroom. The Columbia (S.C.) State is a McClatchy paper, like The N&amp;O, and reporters from Raleigh, Charlotte and Columbia often work together.<\/p>\n<p>Saunders wrote his usual column news Tuesday, so it\u2019s not like he\u2019s off on vacation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2010\/07\/20\/588968\/teenage-book-regrets.html\">His column Tuesday <\/a>was about how much he gained from reading \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird\u201d as a youth. Harper Lee\u2019s Atticus Finch had a passion to reveal the truth, regardless of the consequences, and that\u2019s a trait that makes for great lawyers \u2013 and journalists. <\/p>\n<p>If the press is going to demand answers from others, it should be forthcoming itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters are always asking people to fess up, so shouldn\u2019t they do that themselves? Just look at The News &amp; Observer Tuesday morning. The paper\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}