{"id":89809,"date":"2025-07-28T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89809"},"modified":"2025-07-28T05:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:40:15","slug":"journalism-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89809","title":{"rendered":"Journalism Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Jim Smorada was teaching me how to write the news, he taught the same cliche every other journo student and cub reporter gets:\u00a0 do the who, what, when, where, why and how of the story.<\/p>\n<p>So I caught this yesterday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brooklyn Park Police said a crowd gathered for a cultural event had to be dispersed Saturday due to people trying to force their way in. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yKZfPzzX7a\">https:\/\/t.co\/yKZfPzzX7a<\/a><\/p>&mdash; KSTP (@KSTP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KSTP\/status\/1949530518757789995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And I thought &#8211; maybe it&#8217;s just the social media intern doing a terrible job of clubbing and burying the lede?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I looked into the story proper:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Brooklyn Park Police said a crowd gathered for a cultural event had to be dispersed Saturday evening due to people trying to force their way into a stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to police, officers were working at Park Center Senior High on Brooklyn Boulevard, where a cultural event was taking place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said a crowd had gathered outside the event, which then began to try and force their way into the school district\u2019s facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So let&#8217;s break it down:<\/p>\n<p>Who:\u00a0 A crowd, and &#8220;people&#8221;.\u00a0 Who?\u00a0 What people?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What:\u00a0 A &#8220;cultural event&#8221;.\u00a0 What culture?\u00a0 What event?<\/p>\n<p>When: Saturday evening.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Where:\u00a0 Park Center High, in Brooklyn Park.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why: Uhh&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How:\u00a0 With&#8230;er, &#8220;force&#8221; apparently.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And this is the Five &#8211; the\u00a0\u00a0<em>least\u00a0<\/em>PC-whipped of the local TV stations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to Bill Glahn, who had the same idea).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Adjectives. <br><br>Who: people<br>What: ?<br>When: Saturday <br>Where: Brooklyn Park <br>Why: ?<br>How: ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WiPKaWkqGd\">https:\/\/t.co\/WiPKaWkqGd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bill Glahn (@billglahn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billglahn\/status\/1949576606491484638?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jim Smorada was teaching me how to write the news, he taught the same cliche every other journo student and cub reporter gets:\u00a0 do the who, what, when, where, why and how of the story. So I caught this yesterday: And I thought &#8211; maybe it&#8217;s just the social media intern doing a terrible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89809","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=89809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89811,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89809\/revisions\/89811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}