{"id":61,"date":"2005-05-03T18:15:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T02:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/24-hour-news-proves-its-worth\/"},"modified":"2005-05-03T18:15:42","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T02:15:42","slug":"24-hour-news-proves-its-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/24-hour-news-proves-its-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"24 hour news proves its worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written <a href=\"\/blog\/archive\/more-media-musings\/\">in the past<\/a> about the crappy job of mass media and especially 24 hour news networks are doing. I was <a href=\"\/blog\/archive\/document-this\">mostly<\/a> <a href=\"\/blog\/archive\/outfoxed\">beating<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">Fox News<\/a>, but they&#8217;re all guilty. Of course, I&#8217;m not the only one beating this drum. Rude Pundit <a href=\"http:\/\/rudepundit.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/what-laura-bush-should-have-said-rude.html\">weighs in<\/a> (the Media on the Run section) on this past weekends idiotfest about the runaway bride and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/tv_shows\/thedailyshowwithjonstewart\/\">Jon Stewart<\/a> bashed it last night. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\">CNN<\/a> has become another favorite target and deservedly so.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of battling idiocy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2005\/04\/30\/dawkins\/print.html\">Richard Dawkins is my new hero<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written in the past about the crappy job of mass media and especially 24 hour news networks are doing. I was mostly beating on Fox News, but they&#8217;re all guilty. Of course, I&#8217;m not the only one beating this drum. Rude Pundit weighs in (the Media on the Run section) on this past weekends <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/24-hour-news-proves-its-worth\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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_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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-2-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\/p3fonJ-Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}