{"id":19121,"date":"2017-09-23T10:16:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T14:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=19121"},"modified":"2017-09-23T10:16:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T14:16:18","slug":"frida-sofia-was-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=19121","title":{"rendered":"Frida Sofi\u00e1 was fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1084105\/a-schoolgirl-trapped-in-mexicos-earthquake-rubble-won-the-worlds-hearts-except-she-didnt-exist\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/1084105\/a-schoolgirl-trapped-in-mexicos-earthquake-rubble-won-the-worlds-hearts-except-she-didnt-exist\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 12 year old girl buried under rubble in Mexico City didn\u2019t exist, except in the news reports of TV channels.<\/p>\n<p>This story makes the point that the presence of the TV cameras distorted allocation of rescue resources that could have been better deployed where people still needed help.  News reporting is susceptible to the phenomenon of \u201cmass hysteria\u201d, especially if the humans involved want their story to be true (see: Trump\/Russian collusion)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/qz.com\/1084105\/a-schoolgirl-trapped-in-mexicos-earthquake-rubble-won-the-worlds-hearts-except-she-didnt-exist\/ The 12 year old girl buried under rubble in Mexico City didn\u2019t exist, except in the news reports of TV channels. This story makes the point that the presence of the TV cameras distorted allocation of rescue resources that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=19121\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19123,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19121\/revisions\/19123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}