{"id":4209,"date":"2008-01-24T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2017-11-03T16:03:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T21:03:38","slug":"great-moments-in-journalist-fact-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/great-moments-in-journalist-fact-checking\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments In Journalist Fact Checking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget whether the account conforms to the facts; <a href=\"http:\/\/southcountyjournal.stltoday.com\/articles\/2008\/01\/24\/news\/sj2tn20080122-0123fen_lemfire.ii1.txt\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a> isn&#8217;t even internally consistent:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mother, Amy Fujarte, was in the house alone at the time of the fire, Svetanics said, and was taken to an area hospital and treated for smoke inhalation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nickie Bequette, who lives across the street in the 9700 block of South Broadway, said she was enjoying a morning cup of coffee when she looked out a window and saw smoke pouring from the house and the mother escape out a side door with two children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which was it?  Obviously, it wasn&#8217;t worth the reporter&#8217;s shoe leather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget whether the account conforms to the facts; this story isn&#8217;t even internally consistent: The mother, Amy Fujarte, was in the house alone at the time of the fire, Svetanics said, and was taken to an area hospital and treated for smoke inhalation. But: Nickie Bequette, who lives across the street in the 9700 block [&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-4209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209","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=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17245,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions\/17245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}