{"id":390,"date":"2012-06-08T10:04:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T14:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=390"},"modified":"2012-06-08T10:04:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T14:04:40","slug":"your-guide-to-zombie-parasite-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/06\/08\/your-guide-to-zombie-parasite-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Your guide to zombie parasite journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Carl Zimmer in his excellent blog, <em>The Loom<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c562c53ef01761527dd66970c-popup\" style=\"float:right\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zombie-journalist.0011\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c562c53ef01761527dd66970c-800wi\" style=\"margin:0px 0px 5px 5px\" title=\"Zombie-journalist.0011\"><\/a>In the past few weeks, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5914059\/grab-your-boomstick-the-zombie-apocalypse-may-actually-be-upon-us?tag=zombieapocalypse\">a string of horrific tales of cannibalism and other zombie-esque behavior in the news<\/a>. How to explain a handful of reports of people doing the unspeakable? One answer circulating around these days is that it must be parasites. And for some journalists, the question demands a call to the Centers for Disease Control to\u00c2\u00a0<em>find out what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hiding from us!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px\">1. Andy Campbell of the\u00c2\u00a0<em>Huffington Post<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0asked the CDC if some kind of zombie virus was to blame for the recent attacks.\u00c2\u00a0On June 1, he\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/06\/01\/cdc-denies-zombies-existence_n_1562141.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&amp;ir=Politics\">reported<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0on\u00c2\u00a0<em>HuffPo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0Politics page the following scoop:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px\"><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms),\u00e2\u20ac\u009d wrote agency spokesman David Daigle in an email to The Huffington Post.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px\">The\u00c2\u00a0<em>Huffington Post<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0entitled Campbell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard-hitting investigation,\u00c2\u00a0<strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Zombie Apocalypse: CDC Denies Existence Of Zombies Despite Cannibal Incidents.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perhaps the finest deployment of the word\u00c2\u00a0<em>despite<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0in the history of journalism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px\">The story, by the way, received 65,797 likes on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2012\/06\/05\/your-guide-to-zombie-parasite-journalism\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~ah\/f\/qa9grlp9t4j66u0busmu6ckd4s\/468\/60#http%3A%2F%2Fwww.3quarksdaily.com%2F3quarksdaily%2F2012%2F06%2Fyour-guide-to-zombie-parasite-journalism.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"60\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/3quarksdaily?a=R9yAlClYOkY:ecsfwIl_mzE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/3quarksdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/3quarksdaily?a=R9yAlClYOkY:ecsfwIl_mzE:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/3quarksdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/3quarksdaily?a=R9yAlClYOkY:ecsfwIl_mzE:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/3quarksdaily?i=R9yAlClYOkY:ecsfwIl_mzE:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/3quarksdaily?a=R9yAlClYOkY:ecsfwIl_mzE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/3quarksdaily?i=R9yAlClYOkY:ecsfwIl_mzE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/3quarksdaily?a=R9yAlClYOkY:ecsfwIl_mzE:l6gmwiTKsz0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/3quarksdaily?d=l6gmwiTKsz0\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/3quarksdaily?a=R9yAlClYOkY:ecsfwIl_mzE:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/3quarksdaily?i=R9yAlClYOkY:ecsfwIl_mzE:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/3quarksdaily?a=R9yAlClYOkY:ecsfwIl_mzE:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/3quarksdaily?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>via 3quarksdaily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2012\/06\/your-guide-to-zombie-parasite-journalism.html\">http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2012\/06\/your-guide-to-zombie-parasite-journalism.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Zimmer in his excellent blog, The Loom: In the past few weeks, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been\u00c2\u00a0a string of horrific tales of cannibalism and other zombie-esque behavior in the news. How to explain a handful of reports of people doing the unspeakable? One answer circulating around these days is that it must be parasites. And for some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/06\/08\/your-guide-to-zombie-parasite-journalism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your guide to zombie parasite journalism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[153,152,6],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-3quarksdaily","tag-abbas-raza","tag-ifttt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-6i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}