{"id":14726,"date":"2015-09-09T13:32:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T18:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14726"},"modified":"2015-09-10T12:13:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T17:13:41","slug":"great-moments-in-21st-century-journalism-aka-reporting-on-facebook-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/09\/great-moments-in-21st-century-journalism-aka-reporting-on-facebook-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in 21st Century Journalism aka Reporting on Facebook Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Springfield News-Leader<\/em> went hot online with this salacious story over the weekend: Owner of Battlefield Mall phone repair kiosk responds to sex trafficking allegations that went viral on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You go read it while you can. Basically, a young woman took her phone to the kiosk for repair and got it back; after she did, the claimed there was a sensor on it tracking her calls. She went back to complain and reports a nearby tattooed man was eavesdropping on her. Somehow<\/em> the tattooed man knew which car was hers in the mall parking lot and was waiting for her near there; fortunately, she had a mall store employee walk her out because she was nervous. Her phone had some odd behavior that seemed indicative to her of….something. Then she was followed as she drove. Just like something on television. So she suspected it was a white slavery or sex trafficking thing.<\/p>\n

The News-Leader<\/em> reached out to her via Facebook, and she didn’t respond.<\/p>\n

They got a hold of the owner of the mall kiosk, and he said she’s out of her mind. So the story, essentially, was reprinting a Facebook post from some unknown person along with denials from the person under suspicion.<\/p>\n

And the News-Leader<\/em> ran this as a news story.<\/p>\n

The follow-up to the story: Police: Investigation into viral Facebook allegations stalled due to lack of cooperation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The gist: The woman contacted police, but so did the owner of the kiosk. The woman didn’t respond to the police or the News-Leader<\/em> and deleted her Facebook account with the viral post.<\/p>\n

This, my friends, is 21st century journalism. Haven’t you noticed how many news articles, especially in small city newspapers, describe what the person of interest’s Facebook profile says? It’s as though the kids coming out of journalism schools don’t know how to talk to someone directly, whether via phone or in person, before publishing. This example is just an extreme example of the genre, but it’s definitely on the continuum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Springfield News-Leader went hot online with this salacious story over the weekend: Owner of Battlefield Mall phone repair kiosk responds to sex trafficking allegations that went viral on Facebook. You go read it while you can. Basically, a young woman took her phone to the kiosk for repair and got it back; after she […]<\/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-14726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726","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=14726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14733,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726\/revisions\/14733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}