{"id":2416,"date":"2005-10-06T16:07:54","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T23:07:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-06T16:07:54","modified_gmt":"2005-10-06T23:07:54","slug":"arthur-chrenkoff-does-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/06\/arthur-chrenkoff-does-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Chrenkoff Does the Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Blair&#8217;s government, its mendacity slipping the surly bonds of earth, <a href=http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-1811808,00.html>embarks on a campaign against meteorological defeatism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>It is goodbye to those miserable showers and isolated storms. Prolonged sunshine is expected under new \u201cpositive\u201d forecast guidelines issued by the Meteorological Office. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There is no need to dwell on a \u201csmall chance of showers\u201d when \u201cmainly dry\u201d tells a better story. If there are \u201clocalised storms\u201d then it must be \u201cdry for most\u201d. Clouds over Manchester mean generally clear visibility for motorway drivers. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In some cases forecasters should simply reverse the order of events, placing a \u201csmall chance of showers\u201d at the end of the sentence if Britain is expected to be \u201cmostly dry\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>This is based on research suggesting that viewers with short attention spans are more likely to absorb the good news, if it is relevant to them, and filter out the bad. &#8230;<\/ul>\n<p>Who says the <a href=http:\/\/chrenkoff.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/good-news-from-iraq-part-35.html>warbloggers<\/a> haven&#8217;t left their mark on the world?<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.reason.com\/hitandrun\/2005\/10\/happy_little_cl.shtml#011228>Via<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Blair&#8217;s government, its mendacity slipping the surly bonds of earth, embarks on a campaign against meteorological defeatism: It is goodbye to those miserable showers and isolated storms. Prolonged sunshine is expected under new \u201cpositive\u201d forecast guidelines issued by the Meteorological Office. &#8230; There is no need to dwell on a \u201csmall chance of showers\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}