{"id":1610,"date":"2008-01-22T12:12:24","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T12:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-01-22T12:13:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T12:13:38","slug":"real_journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1610","title":{"rendered":"Real Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Power Line<\/a> reports that the ” target=”browser”>Fayetteville Observer<\/a>, a small newspaper in Fayetteville, NC (where Biggest Guy will be in a month) put a stake into the heart of the one meaningful claim that the NYT could make in it’s article on killer veterans.<\/p>\n

That claim was that the rate<\/b> of murders, manslaughter, and other fatal bad behavior by soldiers and vets had increased 89% since the start of the war.<\/p>\n

The newspaper did some actual journalism, digging through local records – a violation of the Times’ journalistic practices, I know – and came to this conclusion<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Data: Combat hasn’t caused murder spike<\/b><\/p>\n

\nCombat stress has not created a spike in murders by soldiers in the Fayetteville area, according to a search of records by The Fayetteville Observer.<\/p>\n

\nTracking killings reported in the newspaper before and after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks showed that more soldiers were accused of murder in the six years before the attacks than in the six years since.<\/p>\n

\nTwelve Fort Bragg soldiers have been accused of killing 13 people in the six-plus years since Sept. 11, 2001, according to Observer records. In the six years before the terrorist attacks, 16 Fort Bragg soldiers were accused of killing 18 people.<\/p>\n

\nThose numbers came from a search of the Observer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s archives and may not be conclusive. Law enforcement agencies do not track killings by whether the accused was a soldier. The Observer examined its own records after a New York Times story published Jan. 13 indicated that homicides involving active-duty service members and new veterans rose 89 percent during the past six years.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Phil Carter’s supposition, that the article is based on Lexus\/Nexus\/Google research looks much more likely based on this. I may reach out to the paper in Columbia and ask if they’d consider doing the same thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One local paper looks at the data – and it doesn’t support the NY Times. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}