{"id":374,"date":"2007-03-31T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2007-03-31T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T00:01:00","slug":"can-journalists-trust-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/03\/can-journalists-trust-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Can journalists trust the public?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">I<\/span> don&#8217;t know about you, but I get <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">heartily sick<\/span> of people whining on about the media &#8211; its <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/latest.cfm?id=502952007\" target=\"_blank\">failings<\/a>, its <a href=\"http:\/\/charterwatch.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/sun-journal-shows-disregard-for-human.html\" target=\"_blank\">mis-reporting<\/a>, its <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/node\/11718\" target=\"_blank\">bias<\/a>. I spent most of my life trying to interest people in the events of the world around them. Some of those I worked with died trying to do the same. All for people who&#8217;d rather play <a style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rockstargames.com\/grandtheftauto\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Theft Auto<\/a>. Or go shopping. Or look after elderly relatives.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so it&#8217;s easy to paint the world in <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk\/content\/transcripts\/hearing-trans23.htm\" target=\"_blank\">primary colours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, just for a moment wouldn&#8217;t you like to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">turn a hose<\/span> on the audience? Roll up the paper and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">swipe<\/span> the readers?<\/p>\n<p>Alas, those stones we howl at every <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">evening newscast<\/span> would flip channels even if <a href=\"http:\/\/larryavisbrown.homestead.com\/files\/Lear\/lear_Vc.htm\" target=\"_blank\">heaven&#8217;s vault<\/a> had cracked.<\/p>\n<p>So, forget the sign off &#8211; the last line of every story should be: <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u201cRemember you don&#8217;t care.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just kidding. Happy April 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I get heartily sick of people whining on about the media &#8211; its failings, its mis-reporting, its bias. I spent most of my life trying to interest people in the events of the world around them. Some of those I worked with died trying to do the same. All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-news-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}