{"id":56,"date":"2004-02-14T15:52:40","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T20:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=56"},"modified":"2008-01-20T17:14:11","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T01:14:11","slug":"rot-in-the-newsroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/02\/14\/rot-in-the-newsroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Rot in the newsroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Miller sent this in:<\/p>\n

We finally got an official newsroom stylebook, published not in print
\nbut on our SII system, and I eagerly took a look (I’d been here less
\nthan a year). The ‘book contained an entry for “badly decomposed<\/strong>,” noting that would anybody ever describe a dead body as “well decomposed”? The next day, a front-page story told of a woman who had been found dead in her apartment. Her body was — you guessed it — “badly decomposed.” A follow-up story a month later repeated the gaffe.<\/p>\n

A good thing her house didn’t burn down — we might have had the cops “sifting through the rubble.<\/strong>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave Miller sent this in: We finally got an official newsroom stylebook, published not in print but on our SII system, and I eagerly took a look (I’d been here less than a year). The ‘book contained an entry for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}