{"id":558,"date":"2007-08-03T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2007-08-03T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T21:24:00","slug":"when-do-security-journalists-stop-being-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/08\/when-do-security-journalists-stop-being-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"When do security journalists stop being journalists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">I<\/span>&#8216;d love to see the difference between a US Defence Dept Video News Release and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/6925584.stm\" target=\"_blank\">the piece<\/a> <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Frank Gardner<\/span> presented tonight on the <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">BBC<\/span> 10. Go view it.<\/p>\n<p>The pay-off to his online copy notes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;until terrorists actually detonate a dirty bomb, the funding for coping for one [<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">sic<\/span>] is thin on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Some equipment is now being distributed, in both the US and Britain, but privately scientists question whether it will really be enough to cope with a full-scale radiological disaster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stop me and buy one!<\/p>\n<p>Gardner&#8217;s no dupe. Let&#8217;s hope he realises the damage that feeble fare like this does to his credibility as a reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8216;d love to see the difference between a US Defence Dept Video News Release and the piece Frank Gardner presented tonight on the BBC 10. Go view it. The pay-off to his online copy notes: &#8230;until terrorists actually detonate a dirty bomb, the funding for coping for one [sic] is thin on the ground. Some [&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],"tags":[416],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}