{"id":633,"date":"2004-03-15T06:55:46","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T06:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=633"},"modified":"2004-03-15T06:55:46","modified_gmt":"2004-03-15T06:55:46","slug":"get-your-tweaks-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/get-your-tweaks-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Get your tweaks on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facsnet.org\/issues\/index.html\">FACSNET<\/a> post &#8220;tweaks&#8221; &#8212;  fun quotes about the news biz &#8212; on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spj.org\/ethics_listserv.asp\">SPJ listserv.<\/a> I bookmarked the tweaks page ages ago, and this morning I finally remembered to check back in. Here&#8217;s one of the good ones: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach&#8217;s St. Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.<BR><br \/>\n&#8212; Ben Bagdikian<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good folks at FACSNET post &#8220;tweaks&#8221; &#8212; fun quotes about the news biz &#8212; on the SPJ listserv. I bookmarked the tweaks page ages ago, and this morning I finally remembered to check back in. Here&#8217;s one of the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/get-your-tweaks-on\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}