{"id":402,"date":"2007-04-20T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2007-04-20T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T13:42:00","slug":"i-would-love-to-chat-with-you-about-this-horrific-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/04\/i-would-love-to-chat-with-you-about-this-horrific-event\/","title":{"rendered":"I would love to chat with you about this horrific event&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">H<\/span>ow do you cover a tragedy in an age where things can come back to haunt you? Well, our friends at <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Gawker<\/span> have pointed up a <a href=\"http:\/\/icantread01.livejournal.com\/103060.html\" target=\"_blank\">LiveJournal<\/a> site where you can read all manner of journalistic appeals, and the public&#8217;s response (think &#8216;whores,&#8217; &#8216;vultures,&#8217; etc.) &#8211; God bless them.<\/p>\n<p>The site is the cyber equivalent of &#8216;the knock.&#8217;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(On which grim subject, a photographer colleague in Belfast once had to go and see a woman whose husband was the freshest victim of sectarian violence. My colleague made the usual polite request for a picture of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>The widow put down her cigarette and gestured to the next room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe coffin&#8217;s open in the kitchen. snap away,\u201d she said.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is part of the job, but there are perhaps better words than those employed by the <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Boston Herald<\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would love to chat with you about this horrific event&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/news\/virginia-tech\/great-moments-in-journalism-media-attacks-virginia-tech-students-livejournal-253611.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gawker<\/a> put it: &#8216;You stay classy, media.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you cover a tragedy in an age where things can come back to haunt you? Well, our friends at Gawker have pointed up a LiveJournal site where you can read all manner of journalistic appeals, and the public&#8217;s response (think &#8216;whores,&#8217; &#8216;vultures,&#8217; etc.) &#8211; God bless them. The site is the cyber equivalent [&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":[7,50],"tags":[265],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","tag-journalism-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","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=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}