{"id":10595,"date":"2015-12-16T11:02:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T11:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/?p=10595"},"modified":"2015-12-16T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T11:02:42","slug":"controversy-in-the-news-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/2015\/12\/controversy-in-the-news-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversy in the news this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the Telegraph laid into large charities and the way they spend their money through frontpage articles. Attacks like this are never helpful to our sector, so it\u2019s important to keep abreast of how these media flurries play out. In particular this media attack used a report \u201cA Hornet\u2019s Nest\u201d as its basis. The report was prepared by the True and Fair Foundation, but other sector voices have made the point that this report was not true and not fair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilsociety.co.uk\/finance\/news\/content\/20957\/telegraph_front_page_attacks_large_charities_for_not_spending_enough_on_good_works?utm_source=14+December+2015+Fundraising&amp;utm_campaign=14+December+2015+Fundraising&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">Read comment on the Telegraph articles and campaign here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilsociety.co.uk\/finance\/news\/content\/20961\/true_and_fair_foundation_had_been_warned_or_inaccuracies_in_its_report?utm_source=14+December+2015+Fundraising&amp;utm_campaign=14+December+2015+Fundraising&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">the story about how unfair the report is can be read here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very important is the review of the report by NCVO here <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ncvo.org.uk\/2015\/12\/12\/true-and-fair-foundation-report-is-neither-true-nor-fair\/\">http:\/\/blogs.ncvo.org.uk\/2015\/12\/12\/true-and-fair-foundation-report-is-neither-true-nor-fair\/<\/a> which was essentially not taken into account by the Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilsociety.co.uk\/governance\/blogs\/content\/20960\/why_the_telegraph_front_page_was_absolute_rubbish_and_what_we_need_to_do_about_it?utm_source=14+December+2015+Fundraising&amp;utm_campaign=14+December+2015+Fundraising&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">review worth reading is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Take a read of it all. This sort of hype, noise and non-story is critical to our sector.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-10595\" data-postid=\"10595\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-10595 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the Telegraph laid into large charities and the way they spend their money through frontpage articles. The report it was based on is flawed, so read a number of reviews and feedback from our sector on this controversial issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3cThd-2KT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10596,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10595\/revisions\/10596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vanel.org.uk\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}