{"id":645,"date":"2007-10-10T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=645"},"modified":"2007-10-10T03:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T09:41:00","slug":"forensic-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/10\/forensic-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Forensic reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> first became aware of Danie Krugel<\/span> through a review by Anton Harber<\/span><\/a> of an edition of South African current affairs show Carte Blanche<\/a>. It was an investigation into the whereabouts of missing victims of a paedophile murderer. Harber said<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\u201cI am not sure what Carte Blanche<\/span> was doing in this story, but it is not journalism. They base their report on two dubious characters – a clairvoyant and an ex-policeman [Krugel] with a mysterious super-machine – who led them to a patch of ground where they found a few unidentified bone fragments. This stuff belongs in a superhero comic, not in journalism.\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

George Claassen<\/span><\/a> nailed it<\/a> even more firmly.<\/p>\n

I nearly blogged it, but I didn\u2019t – surely British journalism, however low, could never sink that far into the primordial swamp of superstition. But the great thing about journalism is, it can always surprise you<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t just them, but here is the Observer<\/span>: <\/p>\n

Traces of Madeleine McCann\u2019s body were found on a Portuguese beach weeks after she was reported missing, during tests by a former detective [Danie Krugel] renowned for locating abducted children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ben Goldacre<\/a> pitches in manfully. Remember, for all the things science can\u2019t explain, there\u2019s a perfectly simple supernatural explanation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I first became aware of Danie Krugel through a review by Anton Harber of an edition of South African current affairs show Carte Blanche. It was an investigation into the whereabouts of missing victims of a paedophile murderer. Harber said: \u201cI am not sure what Carte Blanche was doing in this story, but it is […]<\/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":[265],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-journalism-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","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=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}