{"id":1265,"date":"2004-08-23T00:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2018-08-13T05:47:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T10:47:04","slug":"1265","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/23\/1265\/","title":{"rendered":"So-Called Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Cagey sends in this example of so-called on CNN: <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/08\/21\/edwards.swiftboat\/index.html\" target=\"_new\">Bush adviser quits after appearing in swift boat ad<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a <b>so-called 527 group<\/b>, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is barred from coordinating efforts with an election campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, the authors of this enlightened piece do not actually misuse so-called correctly.  Matthew Hoye or Phil Hirshkorn (Hi, fellows!  I know you&#8217;re going to Google yourselves sometime!) uses so-called as a synonym for <i>what is known as<\/i> or <i>also known as<\/i>, which shortcuts the true power of the idiotm.<\/p>\n<p>No, fellows, to properly use <i>so-called<\/i> to denigrate the noun it modifies, to diminish and sneer with journalistic &#8220;sophistication&#8221; by using this term, you should have written:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a 527 group, Swift Boat <b>so-called Veterans<\/b> for <b>so-called Truth<\/b> is barred from coordinating efforts with a <b>so-called election campaign<\/b>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Behold the true power!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Cagey sends in this example of so-called on CNN: Bush adviser quits after appearing in swift boat ad: As a so-called 527 group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is barred from coordinating efforts with an election campaign. Unfortunately, the authors of this enlightened piece do not actually misuse so-called correctly. Matthew Hoye or Phil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22943,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/22943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}