{"id":1089,"date":"2004-09-30T20:40:37","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T00:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/09\/30\/debate_primer\/"},"modified":"2004-09-30T20:40:37","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T00:40:37","slug":"debate_primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/09\/30\/debate_primer\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post continues its \u201cFor the Record\u201d series today with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A60722-2004Sep29.html?referrer=email\">debate \u201cprimer<\/a>,\u201d telling us where the two candidates misrepresent the issues.  It\u2019s a perfect example of how the headline writers, striving for \u201cbalance,\u201d sway the debate.  If you read the headline and the sub-head, one might be tempted to not read the article and say pox on both your houses.  Both sides lie would be a fair conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>The headline is \u201cA Primer for Tonight\u2019s First Debate, but the sub-head is \u201cBoth Bush and Kerry Have Set the Stage With Some Misleading Claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But when you read the article, roughly 80 percent of the text that debunks either\u2019s claims or attacks is about Bush\u2019s exaggerations, false implications and outright lies.<\/p>\n<p>But to say that Bush is by far the more dishonest wouldn\u2019t be considered partisan.  And the headline writers, who I suspect are more junior journalists, don\u2019t want to be accused of playing favorites. So what we get is misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post continues its \u201cFor the Record\u201d series today with a debate \u201cprimer,\u201d telling us where the two candidates misrepresent the issues. It\u2019s a perfect example of how the headline writers, striving for \u201cbalance,\u201d sway the debate. If you read the headline and the sub-head, one might be tempted to not read the article&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/09\/30\/debate_primer\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}