{"id":183949,"date":"2012-09-27T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/27\/do-your-fing-job\/"},"modified":"2012-09-27T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T23:42:00","slug":"do-your-fing-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/27\/do-your-fing-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Your F%$#ing Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another reason not to link to the AP, they have decided that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/09\/27\/ap-editor-there-wasnt-enough-time-and-space-to-debunk-bachmann-lies\/#.UGSMHdy00ls.facebook\">if you lie enough, they won&#8217;t cover it, because it&#8217;s too much work<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">An editor for the Associated Press said in a panel discussion on Wednesday that during coverage of the Republican primaries, fact-checkers for the organization would have to limit themselves to a \u201cquota\u201d of misstatements by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) during debates.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">According to the Washington Post, the AP\u2019s Jim Drinkard confessed that the sheer volume of factually inaccurate assertions, dubious claims and stretchings of the truth threatened to \u201coverload\u201d the stories of the debates.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe had to have a self-imposed Michele Bachmann quota in some of those debates,\u201d Drinkard told the audience at the National Press Club on Wednesday. Otherwise, Bachmann would have become the story. Of all the Republican candidates who ran, said Drinkard, \u201cOften she was just more prone to statements that just didn\u2019t add up.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s called doing your f%$#ing job.  When a politician lies, or a politician is so f%$#ing delusional that they cannot separate fact from fiction, this is <b>news<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to cover the news, go and work at your parents&#8217; dry cleaning shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another reason not to link to the AP, they have decided that if you lie enough, they won&#8217;t cover it, because it&#8217;s too much work: An editor for the Associated Press said in a panel discussion on Wednesday that during coverage of the Republican primaries, fact-checkers for the organization would have to limit themselves &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,974,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-hack-journalism","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}