{"id":1999,"date":"2015-08-24T01:43:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T06:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2015-08-08T12:48:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T17:48:33","slug":"find-the-disconnect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/08\/find-the-disconnect\/","title":{"rendered":"Find the Disconnect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>News is happening when there is a disconnect in the pattern <em>A leads to B<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Consider this: A leads to B.<\/p>\n<p>So, find A, and when it leads to something other than B, you have a news story.<\/p>\n<p>For example, more money spent on schools leads to better student performance. When it doesn\u2019t, we have a news story. We have irrational behavior and, for some reason, we think that to be unusual and, hence, a news story.<\/p>\n<p>(It seems to me that irrational behavior occurs so often that we would think it normal and not newsworthy, but that is just me.)<\/p>\n<p>At least the behavior is irrational when viewed from the perspective of &#8220;we are trying to lead to better student performance.&#8221; If what we are trying to lead to is &#8220;more jobs for people who really don\u2019t do anything but accept a paycheck,&#8221; we have rational behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps defining B (the leading to thing) is the key or something like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips News is happening when there is a disconnect in the pattern A leads to B. Consider this: A leads to B. So, find A, and when it leads to something other than B, you have a news story. For example, more money spent on schools leads to better student performance. When it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,121,48],"tags":[154,122,170],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-economics","category-general-systems-thinking","tag-communication","tag-economics","tag-general-systems-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}