{"id":2454,"date":"2009-10-05T18:31:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T22:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2009-10-05T18:31:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T22:31:54","slug":"media-should-be-fined-for-factual-inaccuracies-or-distortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/media-should-be-fined-for-factual-inaccuracies-or-distortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Media should be fined for factual inaccuracies (or distortions)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have been fatigued with mainstream media for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t watch one hour of the news without pointing out an inaccuracy.<\/p>\n<p>The common ones are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Distortion of statistics<\/strong>, establishing causation or correlation in statistics where there is no link. \u00a0(My #1 gripe). (Does no news network ever have a statistician validate numbers?!?!!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Misquoting<\/strong>, taking a 5 second sound bite out of a larger conversation. \u00a0Using this you can slur a story anyway you want.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hearsay reported as fact.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Blatant <strong>delivering a press release as news (<\/strong>ie human interest story solved by a new product).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>M<\/strong><strong>edia should be fined for misrepresentation<\/strong>, I am happy for them to say their &#8216;may&#8217; be a link between these or to say rumour has it. \u00a0But be honest, say what it is. \u00a0Otherwise you should get fined for it.<\/p>\n<p>And lets be honest they&#8217;re never going to report news saying it&#8217;s based on hearsay. \u00a0As you will realise it&#8217;s rubbish &#8211; or is that just the definition of mainstream media in the 21st century?<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have been fatigued with mainstream media for quite some time. I can&#8217;t watch one hour of the news without pointing out an inaccuracy. The common ones are: Distortion of statistics, establishing causation or correlation in statistics where there is no link. \u00a0(My #1 gripe). (Does no news network ever have a statistician validate numbers?!?!!) Misquoting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[475,610,735],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}