{"id":1185,"date":"2006-07-03T10:14:44","date_gmt":"2006-07-03T15:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2006\/07\/03\/watchdog\/"},"modified":"2006-07-03T10:14:44","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T15:14:44","slug":"watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Thomas, a member of the  White House press corps since the Kennedy administration, will be in town on Thursday to promote her new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=as2&amp;path=ASIN\/0743267818&amp;tag=thechunk-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Watchdogs of Democracy? : The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechunk-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0743267818\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>. She&#8217;ll be a guest of Writers&#8217; League of Texas at the Austin Marriot (701 E. 11th) at 7pm. Admission is a $5 suggested donation to the Writers&#8217; League.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was recently on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/motherload\/?lnk=v&amp;ml_video=71136\">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/a> promoting the book and was featured in a short skit as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879\">Stephen Colbert&#8217;s roast of G.W. Bush earlier this year at the White House Correspondents dinner<\/a> (that starts at the 16:50 mark of the video). She&#8217;s been a thorn the side of many White House press secretaries and recently drove Tony Snow to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2006\/06\/23.html#a8827\">make a few exasperatedly stupid comments<\/a>. The Statesman had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/opinion\/content\/editorial\/stories\/insight\/07\/2thomas.html\">short interview with her in Sunday&#8217;s paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Thomas, a member of the White House press corps since the Kennedy administration, will be in town on Thursday to promote her new book, Watchdogs of Democracy? : The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public. She&#8217;ll be a guest of Writers&#8217; League of Texas at the Austin Marriot (701 <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/watchdog\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3fonJ-watchdog","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}