{"id":3652,"date":"2010-09-01T07:07:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T06:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2010-09-01T07:07:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T06:07:29","slug":"putting-words-into-mouths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3652","title":{"rendered":"Putting words into mouths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Journalism <\/strong>and accounting seem not to mix at The Daily Mail, which is a significant problem for Mail journalists, as they often like to examine, in the minutest detail, public finance mistakes &#8211; and expose those mistakes to general and widespread derision. Just imagine the glee that the Mail would exhibit as it jumped all over a story where the finances were under-budgeted by 30%. Oh, wait&#8230; Someone needs to remind the Mail journalists how many days there are in a week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3653\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/DailyMailFiasco6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3653\" title=\"DailyMailFiasco6\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/DailyMailFiasco6-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DailyMailFiasco6-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DailyMailFiasco6.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">click for the big picture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unfortunately, no-brainers aren&#8217;t the exclusive domain of the Daily Mail. I pulled this one off the BBC News website. The clipping shows a photograph of possibly the most hated former British Prime Minister since Sir Robert Walpole took up the title, 289 years ago. As if it were some kind of herculean feat, the BBC asks the question: &#8216;How do you sum up a life story in two words?&#8217;, next to Mr Blair&#8217;s photograph.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, in his case, that&#8217;s really easy, &#8216;War Criminal&#8217;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3663\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3663\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/BastardBlair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3663\" title=\"BastardBlair\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/BastardBlair-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BastardBlair-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BastardBlair.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This man is a vagina, but in colloquial terms (click for the big picture)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalism and accounting seem not to mix at The Daily Mail, which is a significant problem for Mail journalists, as they often like to examine,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}