{"id":1213,"date":"2006-04-19T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/19\/114547509115971975\/"},"modified":"2006-12-02T23:58:03","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T23:58:03","slug":"journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists &#8220;finding it easier to write a load of nonsense about something vaguely similar to their dayjobs than to go out and uncovering genuine news stories&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/site\/story\/0,,1756948,00.html\">shocker<\/a>! Or, in other words, a study has found that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;blogging has received disproportionate media coverage and the whole idea of citizen journalism is overhyped&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Next month, more shock new findings about the way the media operates: Journalists &#8220;less likely to check facts or make much effort near to deadline&#8221;; Comment pieces &#8220;far easier to write than proper news, and infinitely better paid&#8221;; and Newspapers &#8220;desperate to fill space with any old pap that might get a few suckers to buy the sodding things and keep their ABC figures high enough to charge advertisers rates that&#8217;ll allow a profit&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists &#8220;finding it easier to write a load of nonsense about something vaguely similar to their dayjobs than to go out and uncovering genuine news stories&#8221; shocker! Or, in other words, a study has found that &#8220;blogging has received disproportionate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/04\/journalism\/\">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":[28,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-the-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","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=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}