{"id":161753,"date":"2023-04-08T16:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T21:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/shadows-spooks-and-surveillance"},"modified":"2023-04-08T16:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T21:26:03","slug":"shadows-spooks-and-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/shadows-spooks-and-surveillance","title":{"rendered":"Shadows, Spooks and Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shadows-spooks-and-surveillance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All journalists who cover violence enjoy macabre humor. If not, they will go insane.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Pedelty noted in his lauded anthropological study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/War-Stories-Culture-Foreign-Correspondents\/dp\/0415911249\/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1676620977&refinements=p_27%3AMark+Pedelty&s=books&sr=1-3&tag=lifeboatfound-20\" rel>War Stories: The Culture of Foreign Correspondents<\/a> that we can be a human being or a journalist, but not both.<\/p>\n<p>The game card above reenforces Pedelty\u2019s observation that \u201creporters were forced to normalize the abnormal and routinize the absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All journalists who cover violence enjoy macabre humor. If not, they will go insane. Mark Pedelty noted in his lauded anthropological study War Stories: The Culture of Foreign Correspondents that we can be a human being or a journalist, but not both. The game card above reenforces Pedelty\u2019s observation that \u201creporters were forced to normalize [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}