{"id":46356,"date":"2019-01-07T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46356"},"modified":"2019-01-06T12:08:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T17:08:02","slug":"its-not-what-you-report-its-how-you-report-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/07\/its-not-what-you-report-its-how-you-report-it\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not <em>what<\/em> you report, it&#8217;s <em>how<\/em> you report it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media reports over the last few weeks have highlighted the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.continentaltelegraph.com\/politics\/americas-national-parks-are-safer-under-the-government-shutdown\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three people have died in US national parks<\/a> during the government &#8220;shutdown&#8221;, and most do their best to imply that these deaths are at least indirectly the fault of President Trump. What isn&#8217;t highlighted is that the three deaths &mdash; individually tragic as they undoubtedly are &mdash; are <em>fewer<\/em> than normally occur in US national parks:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46357\" style=\"width: 838px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/US-National-Park-visitors-in-2014-Wikimedia-Commons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46357\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/US-National-Park-visitors-in-2014-Wikimedia-Commons-828x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-large wp-image-46357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/US-National-Park-visitors-in-2014-Wikimedia-Commons-828x640.jpg 828w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/US-National-Park-visitors-in-2014-Wikimedia-Commons-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/US-National-Park-visitors-in-2014-Wikimedia-Commons-480x371.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/US-National-Park-visitors-in-2014-Wikimedia-Commons-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/US-National-Park-visitors-in-2014-Wikimedia-Commons.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors to US National Parks in 2014.<br \/>Image via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>This does sound a little bizarre it\u2019s true, but it seems that America\u2019s National Parks are actually safer with the government shut down than they are when it\u2019s all running. Not quite what we\u2019d expect, all those rangers and the like we\u2019d think would reduce risk to people.<\/p>\n<p>It is actually possible that this is true too. Could be that rangers themselves are actively dangerous although that might not be the way to bet. But it\u2019s possible that the presence of rangers leads to people thinking they are safer and thus they take more \u2013 and overcompensate \u2013 risks. As with people wearing seatbelts driving more aggressively and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, what is really true here is that varied journalists want to find something to shout at Trump about and deaths in national parks during the shutdown is a good enough excuse&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media reports over the last few weeks have highlighted the fact that three people have died in US national parks during the government &#8220;shutdown&#8221;, and most do their best to imply that these deaths are at least indirectly the fault of President Trump. What isn&#8217;t highlighted is that the three deaths &mdash; individually tragic as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[84,28,53,13],"tags":[1037],"class_list":["post-46356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-donaldtrump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-c3G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46356","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=46356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46358,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46356\/revisions\/46358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}