{"id":1183,"date":"2004-08-20T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-20T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/08\/20\/double_standard-4\/"},"modified":"2004-08-20T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-20T21:21:00","slug":"double_standard-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/08\/20\/double_standard-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Media Matters this afternoon, there\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200408200006 \">a story<\/a> that reminds us of how the press treated allegations about Dubya\u2019s alleged cocaine arrest a few years back.  As with the Swift Boat book and clap trap PR campaign, the charges were widely refuted and thinly sourced.  Then, the media virtually ignored the story until the author\u2019s past discredited him.<\/p>\n<p>So why are they giving credibility to the Swift Boat liars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Media Matters this afternoon, there\u2019s a story that reminds us of how the press treated allegations about Dubya\u2019s alleged cocaine arrest a few years back. As with the Swift Boat book and clap trap PR campaign, the charges were widely refuted and thinly sourced. Then, the media virtually ignored the story until the&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/08\/20\/double_standard-4\/\">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\/1183"}],"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=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}