{"id":1048,"date":"2021-02-15T21:02:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T21:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2021-02-15T21:02:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T21:02:57","slug":"never-believe-first-reports-on-sensational-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/15\/never-believe-first-reports-on-sensational-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Never believe first reports on sensational stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/disrn.com\/news\/new-york-times-issues-correction-in-story-about-death-of-capitol-police-officer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times issues correction of story about death of Capitol police officer<\/a>. He wasn&#8217;t killed as a result of a blow to the head with a fire extinguisher. He had a stroke. Possibly as a result of something that happened that day, but it wasn&#8217;t the way the media reported it. <\/p>\n<p>You count on the fact that initial reports from major news stories will be wrong. It&#8217;s a rule of the universe &#8212; like the rule that whenever I fix something of any significance, I end up bleeding. <\/p>\n<p>Freddie Gray, George Floyd, the Capitol riots, alleged election irregularities, Bubba Wallace and the &#8220;noose,&#8221; &#8230; it doesn&#8217;t matter what it is. If it&#8217;s sensational, the first reports are almost always wrong. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times issues correction of story about death of Capitol police officer. He wasn&#8217;t killed as a result of a blow to the head with a fire extinguisher. He had a stroke. Possibly as a result of something that happened that day, but it wasn&#8217;t the way the media reported it. You count on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/15\/never-believe-first-reports-on-sensational-stories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Never believe first reports on sensational stories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}