{"id":1805,"date":"2009-10-20T08:03:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T12:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2009-10-20T08:03:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T12:03:55","slug":"trash-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=1805","title":{"rendered":"Trash Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/team/">https://dentalprovidence.com/team/</a> Over my cornflakes this morning I was mulling <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/2009\/10\/19\/psst-heres-the-quote-id-like\/#comment-952\">this comment<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/deltoid\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deltoid&#8217;s<\/a> Tim Lambert, which he left in response to my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/2009\/10\/19\/psst-heres-the-quote-id-like\/\" target=\"_blank\">criticism<\/a> yesterday of Joe Romm, who is on the hot seat for <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2009\/10\/18\/error-riddled-superfreakonomics-stephen-dubner-says-romm-has-done-a-great-job-amazon-search\/#more-12813\" target=\"_blank\">claiming<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://dinoeliadis.com/press-releases/">Zolpidem Online Order</a> It is exceedingly common in regular journalism to ask people for a quote that makes a very specific point &#8220;\u201d I&#8217;ve been asked many times by reporters to do similar things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://www.balimadetour.com/about/">https://www.balimadetour.com/about/</a> Not enough has been said about that. I&#8217;m returning to it, because in his response to me, Lambert is obviously approving of such behavior, because <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/2009\/10\/19\/psst-heres-the-quote-id-like\/#comment-952\" target=\"_blank\">he writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
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<a href="https://plazadelencuentro.com/quem-somos/">https://plazadelencuentro.com/quem-somos/</a> This just <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/2009\/10\/19\/psst-heres-the-quote-id-like\/#comment-953\" target=\"_blank\">blows<\/a> my mind. It would be one thing if Romm said to Caldeira, <em>I want to refute Dubner and Levitt<\/em>, or <em>I want to repudiate them<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/cavity-on-wisdom-tooth/">https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/cavity-on-wisdom-tooth/</a> But no, Romm says he wants to<strong> <a href="http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1324"></a>  trash<\/strong> them. That&#8217;s plainly out of bounds. That&#8217;s not how reputable journalists operate&#8211;we don&#8217;t set out to deliberately trash people. Yet Lambert finds this &#8220;refresingly honest.&#8221; No, Tim, this is trash journalism.<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://raceflowdevelopment.com/services/"></a> Over my cornflakes this morning I was mulling this comment by Deltoid&#8217;s Tim Lambert, which he left in response to my criticism yesterday of Joe Romm, who is on the hot seat for claiming It is exceedingly common in regular journalism to ask people for a quote that makes a very specific point &#8220;\u201d I&#8217;ve&#8230;<span> <a href="https://theroyalstagproperties.com/home-video/">https://theroyalstagproperties.com/home-video/</a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=1805\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2787,2790],"tags":[835,1250],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joe-romm","category-journalism","tag-climate-change","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}