{"id":1207,"date":"2006-04-12T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/12\/114485770319481295\/"},"modified":"2006-12-03T00:04:08","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T00:04:08","slug":"italian-insight-idiocy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/italian-insight-idiocy\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian insight idiocy"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>You know how us bloggers are useless compared to &#8220;proper&#8221; journalists because we don&#8217;t have editors, our use of facts can be suspect, and we usually don&#8217;t know what we&#8217;re talking about? Well, it has to be said that over the last few days of Italian electoral confusion, I&#8217;ve seen hardly any remotely decent coverage or analysis from any of the big names of the English-language media world, with far more knowledgable and convincing comment coming from the world of blogs. Paul at Make My Vote Count provides a handy run-down of some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makemyvotecount.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/a_world_without.html\">the worst offenders for ill-informed Italian insight idiocy<\/a>. Have a gander at his other recent Italy posts and all &#8211; damn good job.<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how us bloggers are useless compared to &#8220;proper&#8221; journalists because we don&#8217;t have editors, our use of facts can be suspect, and we usually don&#8217;t know what we&#8217;re talking about? Well, it has to be said that over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/italian-insight-idiocy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}