{"id":3464,"date":"2009-06-02T17:01:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T21:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2009-06-02T17:01:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T21:01:50","slug":"my-industry-butchered-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3464","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My industry butchered itself&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I always feel slightly depressed after listening to David Simon talk about the state of the world today, but the man always say something worthwhile to say. Here he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/5\/7\/david_simon_creator_of_acclaimed_hbo\">testifies before Congress<\/a> on the death of the newspaper industry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Reporting was the hardest and, in some ways, most gratifying job I ever had. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m offended to think that anyone anywhere believes American monoliths, as insulated, self-preserving and self-justifying as police departments, school systems, legislatures and chief executives, can be held to gathered facts by amateurs presenting the task\u00e2\u20ac\u201dpursuing the task without compensation, training or, for that matter, sufficient standing to make public officials even care who it is they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re lying to or who they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re withholding information from.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">The whole thing&#8217;s worth your time. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\">Gerry Canavan<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always feel slightly depressed after listening to David Simon talk about the state of the world today, but the man always say something worthwhile to say. Here he testifies before Congress on the death of the newspaper industry: Reporting was the hardest and, in some ways, most gratifying job I ever had. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m offended &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3464\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[37,11,12],"class_list":["post-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-news","tag-publishing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}