{"id":149686,"date":"2025-11-23T13:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/149686\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:52:07","slug":"the-curious-case-of-robert-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/149686\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curious Case of Robert Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">The 10.06pm amendment on Stuff.co.nz, and what it says about trust in sources<\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webworm.co\/author\/david\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-08-14-at-7.34.00---AM.png\" alt=\"David Farrier\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-22-at-12.11.31---PM.png\" alt=\"Robert Purchase\"\/><br \/>\n            Webworm will explain the significance of this photo shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I am always curious how news organisations cope with retractions or amendments to stories \u2013 and a pretty good one happened over at Stuff (New Zealand&#8217;s biggest news site) at 10.06pm on Friday:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-22-at-11.13.10---AM.png\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"&quot;Man who applied for almost 8000 jobs had been in prison in US&quot;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1812\" height=\"220\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The headline was interesting, but not that interesting. And it certainly wouldn&#8217;t have been on many people&#8217;s radars at 10.06pm when it was published. <\/p>\n<p>10.06pm is where you post things to die.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for choosing to support Webworm. Paying members mean I can keep my public interest journalism free &#8211; and in return you get my more personal stuff and media commentary. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>            This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#000000\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 10.06pm amendment on Stuff.co.nz, and what it says about trust in sources Webworm will explain the significance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-149686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}