{"id":65292,"date":"2021-07-25T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=65292"},"modified":"2021-07-24T10:09:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T14:09:38","slug":"qotd-the-two-rules-of-modern-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/07\/25\/qotd-the-two-rules-of-modern-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Two Rules of Modern Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><strong>RULE # 1<\/strong>: Because journalists are required to be open-minded, exercise independence of spirit, and display a healthy amount of skepticism, the words and deeds of politicians, leaders, and the powerful \u2014 as well as those of regular citizens being interviewed \u2014 must constantly be questioned, second-guessed, doubted, fact-checked, challenged, and, more often than not, interrupted (more or less politely). <\/p>\n<p><strong>RULE # 2<\/strong>: Rule # 1 only applies to Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>(And to anybody leaning conservative.)<\/p>\n<p>For Democrats and leftists, the typical query is more along the lines of &#8220;pray enlighten us to your glorious plans for fundamentally transforming the United States of America (we will be quiet now).&#8221; (Close second: &#8220;kindly tell us how much people have suffered, and are still suffering, in this dreadful country of ours.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Erik, <a href=\"https:\/\/no-pasaran.blogspot.com\/2021\/04\/the-2-rules-of-modern-journalism.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Two Rules of Modern Journalism&#8221;, <em>\u00a1No Pasar\u00e1n!<\/em><\/a>, 2021-04-16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RULE # 1: Because journalists are required to be open-minded, exercise independence of spirit, and display a healthy amount of skepticism, the words and deeds of politicians, leaders, and the powerful \u2014 as well as those of regular citizens being interviewed \u2014 must constantly be questioned, second-guessed, doubted, fact-checked, challenged, and, more often than not, [&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":[57,28,53,41],"tags":[431,477,213,517,101],"class_list":["post-65292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-conservatism","tag-magazines","tag-newspapers","tag-republican","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-gZ6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65292","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=65292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67332,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65292\/revisions\/67332"}],"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=65292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}