{"id":759,"date":"2004-03-12T05:10:22","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T10:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/investigative_reporting\/"},"modified":"2004-03-12T05:10:22","modified_gmt":"2004-03-12T10:10:22","slug":"investigative_reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/investigative_reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigative Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was flipping through the TV news quite a bit last night.  The big story, of course, was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/spain\/article\/0,2763,1167855,00.html\">Madrid train bombings<\/a>.  Once the newsies got through details of the carnage, almost invariably the next story was: Could it happen here?<br \/>\nGood question.  I directed it to my crack Resonance staff to the mystery.  After hours of intensive digging, we came up with the following complex formula:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thousands of travelers + pouring in and out of + cramped train cars + with unchecked baggage, which could contain explosives = Yep, it could happen here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ooops.  I didn&#8217;t make that very dramatic, did I?  Nor did I have a terrorism\/security expert from X university pontificating on the foreign chatter.  Darn it.  Guess that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m here, and not making the big bucks on TV news.<br \/>\nI pick up one thing, however, from watching several of those reports.  In the last couple years the U.S. has spend approximately $100 million shoring up train security, as opposed to $11.8 billion for airline security.  Granted, much of Al Qaeda&#8217;s attention has reportedly been on airplanes, but still that ratio seems quite imbalanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/investigative_reporting\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Investigative Reporting\"><p>I was flipping through the TV news quite a bit last night. The big story, of course, was the Madrid train bombings. Once the newsies got through details of the carnage, almost invariably the next story was: Could it happen here? Good question. I directed it to my crack Resonance staff to the mystery. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}