{"id":479,"date":"2007-06-16T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2007-06-16T08:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-16T14:38:00","slug":"facebook-frenzy-revealing-your-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/06\/facebook-frenzy-revealing-your-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook frenzy: revealing your sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">I<\/span>n the media rush to embrace <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Facebook<\/span> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/p\/Adrian_Monck\/551816538\">I&#8217;m no different<\/a>), one thing strikes me as potentially dangerous for journalists. That&#8217;s sources. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Facebook<\/span> networks allow you to track all kinds of friendships, and when it comes to information they could quickly throw up potential sources.<br \/><span id=\"fullpost\"><br \/>By way of example, I was going to blog about something typically dull that a friend had told me about resource issues at a certain organisation. Although that friend wasn&#8217;t on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Facebook<\/span>, it seemed to me pretty obvious that fingers might be pointed at friends who were and who worked at the place in question. Hmmm. Obviously this isn&#8217;t life or death for me, because I&#8217;m just a blogging professor &#8211; but if I were a working journo? You tell me&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the media rush to embrace Facebook (I&#8217;m no different), one thing strikes me as potentially dangerous for journalists. That&#8217;s sources. Facebook networks allow you to track all kinds of friendships, and when it comes to information they could quickly throw up potential sources.By way of example, I was going to blog about something typically [&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":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","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=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}