{"id":755,"date":"2009-03-13T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T12:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/the-unemployed-journalists-cor.html"},"modified":"2009-03-13T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T12:40:51","slug":"the-unemployed-journalists-cor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/03\/the-unemployed-journalists-cor.html","title":{"rendered":"The Unemployed Journalists Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have growing numbers of unemployed journalsits.<br \/>\nWe have zillions of dollars being spent by the federal government, a recipe for mismanagement.<br \/>\nHow about we employ some of these out of work journalists to evaluate and monitor the prorams to improve their quality?<br \/>\nSargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps, hired a young man named Charlie Peters to be his head of evaluation. Peters then hired journalists to give honest assessments of the Peace Corps prorams &#8212; getting Shriver the bad news before they could become public, so the problems could be fixed. (Peters later went on to found The Washington Monthly, where I was once an editor).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have growing numbers of unemployed journalsits. We have zillions of dollars being spent by the federal government, a recipe for mismanagement. How about we employ some of these out of work journalists to evaluate and monitor the prorams to improve their quality? 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