{"id":2769,"date":"2010-01-20T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:45:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:45:27","slug":"what-passes-for-journalism-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2769","title":{"rendered":"What passes for journalism these days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/158004\/\">this<\/a> is the best the Trib can do in covering the Duluth School Board.  No story, just a couple quotes.<br \/>\nTake your pick of these assessments:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Dixon<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a video presentation, Dixon pointed out a number of the district&#8217;s achievements over the past year, including seven schools ranking in the top 25 percent of schools statewide for their performance on state tests, the district&#8217;s high bond rating and its progress on the long-range facilities plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are a strong school district and this is a proud, caring community,&#8221; Dixon said in the video. He wasn&#8217;t able to be at the meeting because of a death in the family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Judy Seliga-Punyko: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are in the best shape we&#8217;ve ever been in because we finally have stability. We have the programs we want, we have the plan, even financially we&#8217;re doing great. We have the best bond rating, we&#8217;ve had great audits. Honestly, financially we are doing great if only the state would give us the money they&#8217;re supposed to.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mary Cameron: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s depressing. I just went to a leadership conference last Thursday and Friday in Minneapolis about [school finance] and it&#8217;s very depressing. I have knots in my stomach just thinking about it. We have so much work to do, and they are depending on us to do it with less funds.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently this is the best the Trib can do in covering the Duluth School Board. No story, just a couple quotes. Take your pick&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20616,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/20616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}