{"id":29583,"date":"2015-01-08T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29583"},"modified":"2015-01-06T23:32:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T04:32:20","slug":"media-man-of-the-year-for-2014-ben-trovato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/01\/08\/media-man-of-the-year-for-2014-ben-trovato\/","title":{"rendered":"Media man of the year for 2014 – Ben Trovato"},"content":{"rendered":"

At The Federalist<\/em> Robert Tracinski<\/a> nominates perhaps the most appropriate candidate for media man<\/font><\/del> person<\/font><\/ins> of the year:<\/p>\n

As the year winds to a close, it is traditional to pick a \u201cman of the year,\u201d or in our more enlightened age, a \u201cperson of the year.\u201d I\u2019ve never done that before, but this year there is one candidate who has left his mark so indelibly on 2014 that I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge his vast influence.<\/p>\n

Thus, my own personal pick for 2014\u2032s Person of the Year: Ben Trovato.<\/p>\n

He has been everywhere and had a hand in just about every big story, from Ferguson to the University of Virginia. He has been most active in his usual fields, journalism and politics, but we can see his impact as far afield as espionage and even retail.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve never heard of him? Maybe so, but you already know him very well.<\/p>\n

For those who suspect that Ben Trovato is not a real, literal person, you\u2019re right. But the whole point of old Ben\u2019s influence is that it doesn\u2019t matter whether he\u2019s literally real. Or whether anything is literally real, for that matter.<\/p>\n

I first heard of Ben Trovato while reading a curious little volume of unusual word origins. A number of these supposed etymologies, most of the really colorful ones, were attributed to \u201cBen Trovato.\u201d The name is taken from an old Italian saying: se non \u00e8 vero, \u00e8 ben trovato<\/em>. Roughly translated: if it\u2019s not true, it\u2019s a good story. These were the kind of word origins that you really wanted<\/em> to be true, but for which there was no real evidence. In contemporary parlance, they are \u201ctoo good to check.\u201d<\/p>\n

I think you can begin to see why 2014 has been the year of Ben Trovato. It has been a year full of things that were non vero<\/em>, but which had really good narratives. Or at least really convenient narratives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At The Federalist Robert Tracinski nominates perhaps the most appropriate candidate for media man person of the year: As the year winds to a close, it is traditional to pick a \u201cman of the year,\u201d or in our more enlightened age, a \u201cperson of the year.\u201d I\u2019ve never done that before, but this year there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[477,213,101],"class_list":["post-29583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-magazines","tag-newspapers","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7H9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29585,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29583\/revisions\/29585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}