{"id":1692,"date":"2010-06-09T08:51:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T14:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2010-06-09T08:51:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T14:51:36","slug":"if-the-news-had-a-sociological-slant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2010\/06\/09\/if-the-news-had-a-sociological-slant\/","title":{"rendered":"if the news had a sociological slant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/trueslant.com\/conorfriedersdorf\/2010\/06\/07\/it-depends-who-writes-the-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">True\/Slant<\/a> recently parodied how reporting on the oil spill might look quite different &#8220;if sociologists wrote the news instead&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Absent from the dialogue surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill,  which began on April 20, 2010 following an explosion that killed eleven  workers, are the roles of class, race and especially gender. Due to the  environmental devastation wrought by the catastrophe, which is likely to  fall heaviest on the working poor, it is understandable that attention  is largely focused on efforts to plug the oil well undertaken by British  Petroleum, a corporation founded in imperial Britain to exploit the oil  resources of people of color.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/trueslant.com\/conorfriedersdorf\/2010\/06\/07\/it-depends-who-writes-the-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True\/Slant recently parodied how reporting on the oil spill might look quite different &#8220;if sociologists wrote the news instead&#8221;: Absent from the dialogue surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which began on April 20, 2010 following an explosion that killed eleven workers, are the roles of class, race and especially gender. Due to the environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[126,65,118,129,665],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-disaster","tag-environment","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}