{"id":428,"date":"2003-08-03T10:08:23","date_gmt":"2003-08-03T14:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/08\/03\/the-shallowness-of-modern-reportin"},"modified":"2003-08-03T10:08:23","modified_gmt":"2003-08-03T14:08:23","slug":"the-shallowness-of-modern-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/08\/03\/the-shallowness-of-modern-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shallowness of Modern Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a177'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>In its latest issue, <U>Science<\/U> tackles the outrageous misreporting of the looting of the Baghdad museums.&nbsp; This comes far too <STRONG>late<\/STRONG> for my taste, but I&#8217;m very glad that it got out &#8212; and that the looting is discussed by a few different authors in the same iss.&nbsp; I remember reading before the war about the storing away of the major artifacts, and then not being able to find that needle in the haystack of war journalism afterwards [and being <STRONG>roundly ridiculed<\/STRONG> for suggesting such a thing]&#8230;&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Few things get my blood <STRONG>boiling<\/STRONG> like the lack of independence among the various reporters, writers, publishers, academic experts.&nbsp; The current state of world knowledge is miserably narrow, with no obvious path towards improvement [but instead towards similarly narrow, but ever-incremented, knowledge-sets].&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>If you have a Harvard U. PIN, you can <STRONG>read the Science <\/STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/80-www.sciencemag.org.ezp1.harvard.edu\/cgi\/content\/full\/301\/5633\/582\"><STRONG>article<\/STRONG> online<\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its latest issue, Science tackles the outrageous misreporting of the looting of the Baghdad museums.&nbsp; This comes far too late for my taste, but I&#8217;m very glad that it got out &#8212; and that the looting is discussed by a few different authors in the same iss.&nbsp; I remember reading before the war about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}