{"id":311,"date":"2007-12-10T16:51:57","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T23:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=311"},"modified":"2007-12-10T16:51:57","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T23:51:57","slug":"assumptions-are-the-new-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":"Assumptions are the new journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still busy, nothing major, but I did want to give a shout-out to Dan Hsu for pointing out that, you know, it&#8217;d be nice if the rumor-peddling megablogs <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/gaming\/mea-culpa\/ziff-sets-us-straight-on-stolen-street-fighter-iv-pics-331583.php\" target=\"_blank\">actually did a little research once in a while<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please note they thank Dan for &#8220;clearing up the matter,&#8221; but outside of acknowledging it with a &#8220;mea culpa&#8221; headline, they do not actually apologize for making and publicizing the mistake in the first place. I suspect this is because there is no actual regret <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/gaming\/rumor\/ziff-davis-picks-on-tiny-brazilian-site-over-leaked-sfiv-pics-%5Bupdated%5D-331553.php\" target=\"_blank\">for the incredibly assumptive comments that Mike Fahey made.<\/a> But that&#8217;s me assuming!<\/p>\n<p>I would really like to see &#8220;journalists&#8221; act like <span style=\"font-style: italic\">journalists<\/span>. When you fuck up, own up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still busy, nothing major, but I did want to give a shout-out to Dan Hsu for pointing out that, you know, it&#8217;d be nice if the rumor-peddling megablogs actually did a little research once in a while. Please note they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=311\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}