{"id":1515,"date":"2020-03-29T14:31:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2020-03-29T14:31:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:31:25","slug":"irresponsible-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/29\/irresponsible-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Irresponsible reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I keep hearing these portentous (BONUS word of the day!) radio news people proclaiming AMERICA ON LOCKDOWN!, and I have to question their responsibility in doing so. It\u2019s not accurate &#8211; public officials have been excellent at communicating that we are NOT on lockdown; travel is discouraged and non-essentials are not to go to work (at least around here).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But officials have been at pains to convey that we are NOT on lockdown, there ARE no travel restrictions, there ARE no curfews. In the face of that, I consider it irresponsible of the news media to use inaccurate terms which unnecessarily increase public anxiety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note that these are the syndicated\/national news people, so it\u2019s clearly NOT accurately as reported on a national basis. And they fail to give local examples where that is the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep hearing these portentous (BONUS word of the day!) radio news people proclaiming AMERICA ON LOCKDOWN!, and I have to question their responsibility in doing so. It\u2019s not accurate &#8211; public officials have been excellent at communicating that we are NOT on lockdown; travel is discouraged and non-essentials are not to go to work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/29\/irresponsible-reporting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Irresponsible reporting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-language"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmbaxter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}