{"id":428,"date":"2008-07-12T12:14:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T17:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/?p=428"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:38","slug":"unnecessary-sensationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/unnecessary-sensationalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Unnecessary Sensationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long since gotten tired of American news, in all media: print, evening news, 24-hr talking heads, etc.\u00a0 Everything is so sensationalized and marketed to capture the interest of your average disinterested, entertainment-hungry American.<\/p>\n<p>But this is trite; I&#8217;m saying nothing new.\u00a0 I just wanted to preface the following example, which pissed me off this morning because it&#8217;s blatantly sensationalized, and utterly unnecessarily.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a story about two &#8220;proximity events&#8221; near JFK airport, in which two planes came close to their safety margins in terms of distance in air.\u00a0 Notice that the headline is &#8220;2nd <strong>near collision<\/strong>,&#8221; and yet in the article itself very specifically says: &#8220;The [FAA] said it was <strong>not<\/strong> classifying either incident as a &#8216;near collision'&#8221; (emphasis added).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how much more hypocritical that could possibly get&#8230; and this is not our local paper saying this, it&#8217;s the Associated Press&#8217;s title.\u00a0 If you guys are going to make up headlines without reading the articles, why not go the whole nine yards?\u00a0 I&#8217;m thinking: &#8220;OMG! Terrorists Nearly Blow Up Planes AGAIN at JFK Airport!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/sensatinalism-faa.jpeg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-429\" title=\"Sensationalism\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/sensatinalism-faa-450x450.jpg\" alt=\"No, AP, as you state in the article, these were NOT 'near collisions'.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long since gotten tired of American news, in all media: print, evening news, 24-hr talking heads, etc.\u00a0 Everything is so sensationalized and marketed to capture the interest of your average disinterested, entertainment-hungry American. But this is trite; I&#8217;m saying nothing new.\u00a0 I just wanted to preface the following example, which pissed me off this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}