{"id":43,"date":"2009-03-19T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T19:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/?p=43"},"modified":"2009-03-19T11:07:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T19:07:21","slug":"never-forget-this-you-ink-stained-wretches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Never forget this, you ink stained wretches."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1988\">Andrew Brown speaks a great truth<\/a> in the midst of the dissolution of the journalism we have known:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If readers cannot change their lives as a result of what they read, they will not bother. In particular, they won\u2019t demand accuracy; and when what they read seems to have no effect in the real world, they won\u2019t demand kindness, either.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t think of a better explanation of <a href=\"http:\/\/fixcnbc.com\/\">what happened with CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memex.naughtons.org\/archives\/2009\/03\/17\/6998\">He points to this post<\/a>, which I record here because I am mentally scraping the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Brown speaks a great truth in the midst of the dissolution of the journalism we have known: &#8220;If readers cannot change their lives as a result of what they read, they will not bother. In particular, they won\u2019t demand accuracy; and when what they read seems to have no effect in the real world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,35,184,7],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-andrew-brown","tag-fixcnbc","tag-journalism","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quinnnorton.com\/said\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}