{"id":2794,"date":"2004-09-07T14:50:43","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T21:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2004-09-07T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2004-09-07T21:50:43","slug":"big-media-may-or-may-be-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/07\/big-media-may-or-may-be-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Media May Or May Be Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two stories on the morning&#8217;s wire:  <a href='http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=615&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/nm\/campaign_clinton_dc'>Clinton Absence Spells Either Boost or Bust for Kerry<\/a> and <a href='http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/20040907\/ap_on_el_pr\/cheney_s_role_2'>Cheney May Help or Hinder Bush&#8217;s Chances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wow, that&#8217;s some hardhitting investigative journalism, right there.  Who&#8217;s writing this stuff, Two-Face?  Typically to find this kind of detailed analysis about how Thing X could possibly affect Thing Y in one of two ways, you&#8217;d have to get stuck making chit-chat with a coworker in the elevator.    I don&#8217;t know why they don&#8217;t just run one big <B>Bush Or Kerry May Win Presidency<\/b> article and wrap up their election reporting a few weeks early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two stories on the morning&#8217;s wire: Clinton Absence Spells Either Boost or Bust for Kerry and Cheney May Help or Hinder Bush&#8217;s Chances. Wow, that&#8217;s some hardhitting investigative journalism, right there. Who&#8217;s writing this stuff, Two-Face? Typically to find this kind of detailed analysis about how Thing X could possibly affect Thing Y in one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}