{"id":671,"date":"2007-04-04T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T16:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/04\/in-journalism-101-class\/"},"modified":"2007-04-15T22:13:51","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T04:13:51","slug":"in-journalism-101-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"In Journalism 101 Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall of 1981, I took Journalism 101.  The teacher &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gannett.com\/go\/newswatch\/98\/march\/nw0313-5.htm\">Jim Smorada<\/a>, then the editor of the Jamestown Sun &#8211; was a great reporter and a great teacher.<\/p>\n<p>And while my &#8220;career&#8221; as a &#8220;journalist&#8221; was short, underpaid and undistinguished, I can honestly say that I held true to almost everything Mr. Smorada taught me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;including, perhaps most importantly of all, his imprecation to never, never, <em>ever <\/em>refer to myself as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotamonitor.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=1548\">this reporter<\/a>&#8220;.  Of this, I am modestly proud.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>CORRECTION: Link to Fecke was initially to the &#8220;above the fold&#8221; story, which would have required the gentle reader to click to read the rest of the story, which is an oppressive level of violence inherent in the system.  I&#8217;ve supplied a link to the whole story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall of 1981, I took Journalism 101. The teacher &#8211; Jim Smorada, then the editor of the Jamestown Sun &#8211; was a great reporter and a great teacher. And while my &#8220;career&#8221; as a &#8220;journalist&#8221; was short, underpaid and undistinguished, I can honestly say that I held true to almost everything Mr. Smorada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}