{"id":785,"date":"2007-01-28T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=785"},"modified":"2007-01-28T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-28T21:27:00","slug":"an-example-of-the-commercial-appeals-timely-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/28\/an-example-of-the-commercial-appeals-timely-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"An example of the Commercial Appeal&#8217;s timely reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 19:  Professional wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow, 45, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.411mania.com\/wrestling\/news\/49850\/Scott-%5C\">passes away<\/a> at his home in Hudson, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, January 28:  The Memphis <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Commercial Appeal<\/span> reports that professional wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Now, granted, this is hardly a story of primary importance, but still, it&#8217;s nine days old.  Why even BOTHER with it?  If you can&#8217;t report the news in a timely fashion, why report it at all?<\/p>\n<p>This is what passes for &#8220;journalism&#8221; in 2007.  No wonder the bloggers are running the newspapers out of business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 19: Professional wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow, 45, passes away at his home in Hudson, Florida. Sunday, January 28: The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports that professional wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow has passed away. Now, granted, this is hardly a story of primary importance, but still, it&#8217;s nine days old. Why even BOTHER with it? &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/28\/an-example-of-the-commercial-appeals-timely-reporting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An example of the Commercial Appeal&#8217;s timely reporting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->