{"id":160,"date":"2005-07-10T05:14:10","date_gmt":"2005-07-10T09:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/07\/10\/completely-unbelievable-news\/"},"modified":"2005-07-10T05:14:10","modified_gmt":"2005-07-10T09:14:10","slug":"completely-unbelievable-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/07\/10\/completely-unbelievable-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Completely unbelievable news"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How can anyone believe such undersourced and marginally informative
\nnews?  “450 sheep jump to their death” — a fascinating
\nstory.  I want to know more.  Will I ever discover more in
\nthe English-language media?  In any media?  Probably
\nnot.  This was probably treated as a tabloid story by its original
\n(Turkish) reporters, and by its translators. Immediately classified as
\nfilling some “social interest” slot that must be filled each day.<\/p>\n

What original reporter went to the trouble of getting 3 tiny fragments
\nof data, along with excerpts from a Turkish paper, without finishing
\nthe story or talking directly to the original reporter?  Only the
\ntitle of the source paper was mentioned; I couldn’t find the article
\nmyself by searching quickly through the Aksam <\/span>paper’s online version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How many sheep were in the flock?  How many shepherds were at
\nlunch when the sheep began to jump, at what time of day?  How high
\nwas the cliff?  What was the weather like?  Did the entire
\nflock jump?  Are there any recorded precedents <\/span>for this?  I see micro stories like this via Reuters <\/span>and AP <\/span>all
\nthe time which I discount completely… if they are real news, I want
\nto know that, for goodness’ sake.  I don’t enjoy being cynical<\/span> about unusual stories<\/span>; but there has yet to be a system of accountability <\/span>that I trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How can anyone believe such undersourced and marginally informative news?  “450 sheep jump to their death” — a fascinating story.  I want to know more.  Will I ever discover more in the English-language media?  In any media?  Probably not.  This was probably treated as a tabloid story by its original (Turkish) reporters, and by its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-mod"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}