{"id":45150,"date":"2014-09-12T14:10:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T20:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/12\/the-one-great-weakness-of-journalism.html"},"modified":"2014-09-15T08:46:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T14:46:02","slug":"the-one-great-weakness-of-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/12\/the-one-great-weakness-of-journalism.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;The one great weakness of journalism&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A truism we often forget. Journalism is not about reporting the common, but the uncommon. It&#39;s only when we forget that, and assume that such events <i>are<\/i> common that they truly begin to frighten us.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Doyce Testerman<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>G.K. Chesterton, a journalist to gets (well, got) it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.freerangekids.com\/why-we-are-so-afraid-and-confused-and-get-child-dangers-all-wrong\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/obOvXk8wMHxfBawZFemDq_hPflwcTO8B1YJ5a1n8M1HGL0uCh0YH5HTqsUarJXWCSE0kHtSVeFQKuFYVJiaopADmX7E7-NvvkCY-F6ZYyFBOsLUzyJPT6zYOrUyqB3Xqf3IIqnfNRmF2D1BjFmGbxWfKC0UzAg26RUPIx630yEPr8Ynx6xFnoOV1XJnoSw=w120-h120' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.freerangekids.com\/why-we-are-so-afraid-and-confused-and-get-child-dangers-all-wrong\/'>Why We Are So Afraid and Confused and Get Child Dangers ALL WRONG : Free Range Kids<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFighting the belief that our children are in constant danger from creeps, kidnapping, germs, grades, flashers, frustration, baby snatchers, bugs, bullies, men, sleepovers, Ivy League rejection letters and\/or the perils of a non-organic grape.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/4cwxMoPJP66'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truism we often forget. Journalism is not about reporting the common, but the uncommon. It&#39;s only when we forget that, and assume that such events are common that they truly begin to frighten us. Originally shared by +Doyce Testerman: G.K. Chesterton, a journalist to gets (well, got) it. Why We Are So Afraid and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/12\/the-one-great-weakness-of-journalism.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;The one great weakness of journalism&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1963,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/02\/resistance_is_f.html","url_meta":{"origin":45150,"position":0},"title":"Resistance is Futile","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Apr-02 10:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"Microcontent News has an interesting article by John Hiller on Borg Journalism, in which blogs take on the role of the Borg (or ants), assimilating, collectively, the function of journalism....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25332,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/the-most-pathetic-question-ever-asked-in-journalism.html","url_meta":{"origin":45150,"position":1},"title":"The most pathetic question ever asked in journalism","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Jan-12 3:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I mean, really? 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