{"id":1361,"date":"2004-08-02T07:58:05","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T12:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2004-08-02T07:58:05","modified_gmt":"2004-08-02T12:58:05","slug":"style-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/08\/style-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Style Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Steven for this link<\/a> to Notes From A Writing Coach<\/a>.
\nIt was interesting to read the author’s critique<\/a> of a lazy reporter’s error-ridden article about guns. Yesterday, my husband mentioned an article from last week’s Washington Post about the government’s budget for a particular project. The reporter had apparently talked to a liberal lobby group’s PAC and had dutifully written down their numbers (which, of course, showed how wicked and tight-fisted the Bush Administration is.) Apparently, she couldn’t be bothered to give the goverment agency a call to check those numbers (or look them up on the Web); if she had, she would have found out that she either completely misunderstood what the group had told her, or that the group had played her for a fool. (My husband’s department handles this group’s funding.) The story was just plain wrong.
\nRemember when the Jayson Blair story broke? I remember seeing an interview with someone close to one of the events that he’d spun stories about (I think it was someone involved with the sniper investigation.) He was asked, didn’t you suspect something when you saw this bizarre story in the Times? He replied, no, we’re used<\/b> to seeing stories in the paper that have nothing to do with what we saw with our own eyes.
\nTom of Disputations wrote about the same thing<\/a> in his old “Praying the Post” blog.
\nI don’t trust newspapers, particularly the “leading” papers. Do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Steven for this link to Notes From A Writing Coach. It was interesting to read the author’s critique of a lazy reporter’s error-ridden article about guns. Yesterday, my husband mentioned an article from last week’s Washington Post about the government’s budget for a particular project. The reporter had apparently talked to a liberal… Continue reading Style Blog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-st-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}