{"id":190076,"date":"2010-01-09T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/09\/what-dan-said\/"},"modified":"2010-01-09T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T03:19:00","slug":"what-dan-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/09\/what-dan-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What Dan Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Froomkin, that is, about the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/01\/09\/fool-me-over-and-over-and_n_417311.html\">bogus numbers that the Pentagon keeps feeding the media regarding Guantanamo detainees who have returned to the fight<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Denbeaux calls this week&#8217;s outrageous Pentagon assertions the latest example of what he calls &#8220;numbers without names and trends without numbers.&#8221; He told me he&#8217;s outraged it&#8217;s been so widely picked up &#8212; including by the Times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t see what the point is of a public editor criticizing a story for the New York Times if they&#8217;re going to republish it a year later,&#8221; he told me.<\/p>\n<p>Gullible, amnesiac journalists are a dangerous thing. Is our profession really incapable of learning anything from its mistakes?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, journalists are so tied to their sources that they will repeat the same lie, even if it it&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">known<\/span> to be a lie, over, and over, and over, and over again.<\/p>\n<p>This has been another episode of simple answers to simple questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Froomkin, that is, about the bogus numbers that the Pentagon keeps feeding the media regarding Guantanamo detainees who have returned to the fight: Denbeaux calls this week&#8217;s outrageous Pentagon assertions the latest example of what he calls &#8220;numbers without names and trends without numbers.&#8221; He told me he&#8217;s outraged it&#8217;s been so widely picked &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,974,1051,1006,982,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-hack-journalism","category-hypocrisy","category-military","category-stupid","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190076"}],"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=190076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}