{"id":198690,"date":"2007-10-17T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/17\/sociopaths-for-truth\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T04:16:00","slug":"sociopaths-for-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/17\/sociopaths-for-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociopaths for Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/transcripts\/2007\/10\/12\/04\">transcript from: On The Media<\/a> warrented some comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span>RON ROSENBAUM:<\/span> Yes, and the many repercussions for the many layers of flunkies and lackeys that this cold had. You can learn more from an investigative reporter who doesn&#8217;t speak to the person. I&#8217;ve called investigative reporters &#8220;sociopaths for truth&#8221; &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span>BROOKE GLADSTONE:<\/span> [LAUGHS]<\/p>\n<p><span>RON ROSENBAUM:<\/span> &#8212; because they&#8217;re a different breed of cat. They&#8217;re not afraid to hurt feelings if it means telling the truth about someone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that this is very true.  Investigative reporters are there to make people uncomfortable, and they delight in doing so.  They are generally not acceptable in polite society.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the increasing professionalization of reporting, by which I mean the Journalism degrees and the whole &#8220;w(h)ine and cheese&#8221; mentality that goes along with this<sup>*<\/sup> has led to a snark replacing insight, and cocktail party chat replacing investigations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><sup>*<\/sup>Best exemplified by the white, pampered, Ivy League staff of <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:85%;\" >The New Republic<\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that thistranscript from: On The Media warrented some comments: RON ROSENBAUM: Yes, and the many repercussions for the many layers of flunkies and lackeys that this cold had. You can learn more from an investigative reporter who doesn&#8217;t speak to the person. I&#8217;ve called investigative reporters &#8220;sociopaths for truth&#8221; &#8212; BROOKE GLADSTONE: [LAUGHS] &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1129,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198690"}],"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=198690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}