{"id":99,"date":"2017-01-13T06:06:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T06:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/?p=99"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:29:31","slug":"was-buzzfeed-right-on-donald-trump-dossier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/was-buzzfeed-right-on-donald-trump-dossier\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Buzzfeed right on Donald Trump dossier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Was Buzzfeed right to publish the <a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/kenbensinger\/these-reports-allege-trump-has-deep-ties-to-russia?utm_term=.faNQQ5MlVN#.mieZZeg01L\">Trump dossier?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That comes down to editorial judgement, which is to news what eggs are to an omelette &#8211; the essential ingredient.<\/p>\n<p>That said, I opened this post with a question which I will not answer &#8211; partly because I work for the BBC and it is not my place to pass judgement on other news organisations&#8217; editorial calls and partly because those editorial calls are subjective.<\/p>\n<p>But as BBC media editor, and as a former editor of The Independent who had to make thousands of these calls, often against tight deadlines and under great pressure from the subjects of our stories, I want to explore some of the considerations that we editors have to make.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully that will illuminate the hugely controversial decision made this week by Buzzfeed.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-38589427\">The story behind the allegations<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-38534773\">When presidents and spies fall out<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-38565127\">Press event a theatre of the absurd<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-38588878\">10 things Trump told us and why<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Editorial judgement is ultimately a moral activity. It is an exercise in selection &#8211; which stories, facts, claims, pictures, words, ideas to publish, and which to leave out &#8211; that relies on several smaller judgements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was Buzzfeed right to publish the Trump dossier? That comes down to editorial judgement, which is to news what eggs are to an omelette &#8211; the essential ingredient. That said, I opened this post with a question which I will not answer &#8211; partly because I work for the BBC and it is not my place to pass judgement on&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/was-buzzfeed-right-on-donald-trump-dossier\/\">Keep Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}