{"id":38,"date":"2006-08-03T07:50:47","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T14:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2006-08-03T07:50:47","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T14:50:47","slug":"silent-self-correction-at-the-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/03\/silent-self-correction-at-the-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent self-correction at the Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noticed a big difference between the headline at the Washington Post’s website: Bush Nominates Indian Affairs Leader<\/a><\/p>\n

And the one that was in today’s paper-y edition, which reads: Bush Nominates Bureau of Indian Affairs Chief<\/p>\n

It’s a harmless correction, but I wonder if someone objected to use of the word “chief” in this context.\u00c2\u00a0 It just struck me as odd, is all. I came across the article today (8\/3\/06, A4) and thought it was kind of funny, but when I tried to find the online version to e-mail, they had changed it.<\/p>\n

I never sat down to think about it, but I wonder how much of our news is being silently massaged. Crom knows I re-edit my own posts for style and grammar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noticed a big difference between the headline at the Washington Post’s website: Bush Nominates Indian Affairs Leader And the one that was in today’s paper-y edition, which reads: Bush Nominates Bureau of Indian Affairs Chief It’s a harmless correction, but I wonder if someone objected to use of the word “chief” in this context.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}