{"id":190,"date":"2009-12-20T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/12\/20\/regret-error\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:13","slug":"regret-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/12\/20\/regret-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Regret the error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am fond of warning clients that we&#8217;re entering a new era &#8211; you can&#8217;t lie! If you do, you will be caught &#8211; if not now then later.<\/p>\n<p>I argue that rather than &#8220;spinning&#8221; an issue, just tell the truth. Getting the true story out in your own words is always better than admitting it after someone else calls you out.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one of the reasons I like this time of year when people start compiling their year-end lists of things. One of my favourites is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regrettheerror.com\/2009\/12\/16\/crunks-2009-the-year-in-media-errors-and-corrections\/\">Regret the Error<\/a> which tracks the media&#8217;s screw-ups over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>See which ones you remember and think about how things could have been handled differently. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am fond of warning clients that we&#8217;re entering a new era &#8211; you can&#8217;t lie! If you do, you will be caught &#8211; if not now then later. I argue that rather than &#8220;spinning&#8221; an issue, just tell the truth. Getting the true story out in your own words is always better than admitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-34","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}