{"id":859,"date":"2008-03-30T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2008-03-30T01:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T07:46:00","slug":"serious-journalism-now-eat-your-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/03\/serious-journalism-now-eat-your-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious journalism &#8211; now eat your greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">G<\/span>ood to see that the alternative to my holiday in Cornwall (think rain, high winds, etc.) was the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/events\/mediarepublic\/2008\/03\/conference\">Berkman conference<\/a> in sunny Los Angeles. But, between sneezing and shivering, think of the carbon dividend! Good too to see Brits like <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Charlie Beckett<\/span> and <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.completetosh.com\/weblog\/2008\/03\/29\/serious-us-journalisms-broccoli-complex\/\">Neil McIntosh<\/a> grounding some of the proceedings: <span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Serious journalism was described &#8230; repeatedly, as something akin to like broccoli, or medicine the citizenry needs to spoon down, no matter how unpalatable, if democracy is to survive. That\u2019s despite the fact investigative, or civic, journalism is still seen inside the industry as being at the top, most vital top end of what we do. Yet I struggle to think of another industry that views its premium product as something akin to a nasty cough syrup &#8211; necessary, good for your health, but irredeemably foul-tasting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good to see that the alternative to my holiday in Cornwall (think rain, high winds, etc.) was the Berkman conference in sunny Los Angeles. But, between sneezing and shivering, think of the carbon dividend! Good too to see Brits like Charlie Beckett and Neil McIntosh grounding some of the proceedings: Serious journalism was described &#8230; [&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":[],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}