{"id":1138,"date":"2004-09-10T12:23:13","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T16:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/09\/10\/bush_administra\/"},"modified":"2004-09-10T12:23:13","modified_gmt":"2004-09-10T16:23:13","slug":"bush_administra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/09\/10\/bush_administra\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Administration Pressures NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/09\/09\/politics\/campaign\/09book.html\">another example today<\/a> of the Bushies attempt to censor news, the administration called NBC to \u201cdiscourage\u201d them from airing interviews with Kitty Kelley about her new book critical of the Bush family.<\/p>\n<p>Now how exactly did they discourage them?  And what do you think the consequences will be if NBC moves forward with the interviews?  Recall that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moveon.org\/news\/2278.html \">CBS caved to the administration<\/a> when the network refused to air MoveOn\u2019s ad about Bush\u2019s policies saddling our children with debt.  Isn\u2019t it telling that such an ad would be censored when the Swift Boat Vets ads were not.  Let\u2019s see how NBC reacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another example today of the Bushies attempt to censor news, the administration called NBC to \u201cdiscourage\u201d them from airing interviews with Kitty Kelley about her new book critical of the Bush family. Now how exactly did they discourage them? And what do you think the consequences will be if NBC moves forward with&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/09\/10\/bush_administra\/\">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\/1138"}],"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=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}