{"id":10652,"date":"2020-06-05T18:39:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T18:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=10652"},"modified":"2020-06-05T18:39:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T18:39:30","slug":"news-media-writes-reports-about-past-tense-events-before-the-events-have-occurred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2020\/06\/05\/news-media-writes-reports-about-past-tense-events-before-the-events-have-occurred\/","title":{"rendered":"News media writes reports about past tense events before the events have occurred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have mentioned this before but today is another example, courtesy of the Washington Post, who published a pre-written report in advance of the actual BLS unemployment release. This is what they wrote. This was, in fact, fiction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/EZwOFumWoAQgA9U.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10653\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/EZwOFumWoAQgA9U.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/EZwOFumWoAQgA9U.png 481w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/EZwOFumWoAQgA9U-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/EZwOFumWoAQgA9U-282x270.png 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And was later rewritten to this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/WaPo-Writes-Future-Stores-Before-the-Events.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10654\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/WaPo-Writes-Future-Stores-Before-the-Events.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/WaPo-Writes-Future-Stores-Before-the-Events.jpg 598w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/WaPo-Writes-Future-Stores-Before-the-Events-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/WaPo-Writes-Future-Stores-Before-the-Events-261x270.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The take away is that &#8220;news&#8221; used to be thought of as a &#8220;report about past events&#8221;. Today, news is pre-written fiction about future events on the basis of assertions and speculations.<\/p>\n<p>The mistakes on pre-written reports or often like this &#8211; and suggest a reporter may have put together a story based on around what they were hoping would occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post publishes a pre-written news report about the BLS unemployment report &#8211; and the pre-written report was completely wrong. The WaPo later replaced the fictional reporting with an actual report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}