{"id":5758,"date":"2009-06-29T22:06:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:29","slug":"investigative-journalism-by-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/investigative-journalism-by-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigative journalism by amateurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWill bloggers ever go to the same lengths that professional journalists do to get a good story? I mean, without a payroll? Newspapers claim it will never happen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSometimes it will. The following is a wonderful case where very passionate fans did their own amazing science and investigative research worthy of any national newspaper or world-class magazine.&#160; The story is about whether vegan resturants in LA are truly vegan, but the larger story is how deep and thorough their investigation was. I&#8217;d be curious to know where they learned their skills.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOh, if you are a vegan (or even a vegatarian) you&#8217;ll want to read this.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quarrygirl.com\/2009\/06\/28\/undercover-investigation-of-la-area-vegan-restaurants\/\">Operation Pancake<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/vegan-house-test-570x321.jpg\" height=\"253\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Vegan-House-Test-570X321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/avisolo.blogspot.com\/\">Avi Solomon<\/a> suggested another in-depth investigative report generated outside of professional journalists. Three students from Singapore created this very impressive long-form article, with photos, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/16389906\/The-Indian-Surrogate\">Surrogate Motherhood in India<\/a>, &#8220;the ultimate outsourcing job.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will bloggers ever go to the same lengths that professional journalists do to get a good story? I mean, without a payroll? Newspapers claim it will never happen. Sometimes it will. The following is a wonderful case where very passionate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/investigative-journalism-by-am\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[268],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}