{"id":33837,"date":"2025-05-22T07:38:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33837"},"modified":"2025-05-21T18:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T23:42:17","slug":"what-journalists-know-just-aint-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/22\/what-journalists-know-just-aint-so\/","title":{"rendered":"What &#8220;Journalists&#8221; Know Just Ain&#8217;t So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hammer on and on about this, but:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/2dmv.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The state of Missouri does not have a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).<\/p>\n<p>License offices are independently operated, often by charitable organizations, and all licensing fees go to the state&#8217;s Department of Revenue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DMV&#8221; comes from the pop culture, where it&#8217;s slang for the kind of thing Missouri license offices handle, presumably prevalent in California and\/or New York, where movies and television shows have been made historically.<\/p>\n<p>I have to be pedantic, since so much in the news just ain&#8217;t so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hammer on and on about this, but: The state of Missouri does not have a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). License offices are independently operated, often by charitable organizations, and all licensing fees go to the state&#8217;s Department of Revenue. &#8220;DMV&#8221; comes from the pop culture, where it&#8217;s slang for the kind of thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33837","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=33837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33839,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33837\/revisions\/33839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}