{"id":2852,"date":"2009-06-19T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2009-06-19T03:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T08:00:29","slug":"telling-it-like-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2852","title":{"rendered":"Telling It Like it Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/articles\/107571\/\">Literary Lesson: Authors, Poets Write the News<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was on an average Wednesday that a very serious Israeli newspaper conducted a very wild experiment. For one day, Haaretz editor-in-chief Dov Alfon sent most of his staff reporters home and sent 31 of Israel\u2019s finest authors and poets to cover the day\u2019s news.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Among those articles were gems like the stock market summary, by author Avri Herling. It went like this: \u201cEverything\u2019s okay. Everything\u2019s like usual. Yesterday trading ended. Everything\u2019s okay. The economists went to their homes, the laundry is drying on the lines, dinners are waiting in place\u2026 Dow Jones traded steadily and closed with 8,761 points, Nasdaq added 0.9% to a level of 1,860 points\u2026. The guy from the shakshuka [an Israeli egg-and-tomato dish] shop raised his prices again\u2026.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finance reporting, I think is an especially egregious offense by reporters.  Think about it \u2014 no matter what happens in the stock market, the reporters will have some cause ascribed to it.  And they&#8217;re just making it up.  Most days the stock market signal is just noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literary Lesson: Authors, Poets Write the News It was on an average Wednesday that a very serious Israeli newspaper conducted a very wild experiment. For one day, Haaretz editor-in-chief Dov Alfon sent most of his staff reporters home and sent &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2852\">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":[10,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-journalism","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","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=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}