{"id":7,"date":"2006-06-26T22:02:34","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T03:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2006\/06\/26\/the-media-god-and-gaffes\/"},"modified":"2007-06-02T21:10:54","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T02:10:54","slug":"the-media-god-and-gaffes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2006\/06\/26\/the-media-god-and-gaffes\/","title":{"rendered":"The media, God and gaffes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Story about how the media bungles stories about religion.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/2006-06-25-faith-edit_x.htm\">USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Bias is a problem. But, in my experience, apathy and ignorance cause most of these laugh-to-keep-from-crying gaffes.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but recall the following quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span class=\"huge\">Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<strong><span class=\"bodybold\"> Napoleon Bonaparte<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Further elucidated at Wikipedia as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Murphy%27s_Law#Hanlon.27s_Razor\">Hanlon&#8217;s Razor.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story about how the media bungles stories about religion. USA Today Bias is a problem. But, in my experience, apathy and ignorance cause most of these laugh-to-keep-from-crying gaffes. I can&#8217;t help but recall the following quote: Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. Napoleon Bonaparte Further elucidated at Wikipedia as Hanlon&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}