{"id":10442,"date":"2011-12-07T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10442"},"modified":"2011-12-07T03:00:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T08:00:27","slug":"its-not-just-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10442","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Not Just Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/blog\/energy-futurist\/why-energy-journalism-is-so-bad\/219\">Why energy journalism is so bad<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Citing subject matter authorities is a necessary element of journalism, but so is casting a critical eye on what they say. Unfortunately, most journalists repeat what their selected authorities say verbatim, and rarely mention contrary views.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While some of the examples cited are specific to energy journalism, overall I think it&#8217;s a journalism problem, not an energy journalism (or science journalism) problem.  There are far too many examples of journalists being credulous parrots or not checking what they say for reasonability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why energy journalism is so bad Citing subject matter authorities is a necessary element of journalism, but so is casting a critical eye on what they say. Unfortunately, most journalists repeat what their selected authorities say verbatim, and rarely mention &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10442\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}