{"id":1652,"date":"2010-06-24T15:48:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T19:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/06\/24\/media-gives-points-for-spin\/"},"modified":"2010-06-24T15:48:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T19:48:27","slug":"media-gives-points-for-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/06\/24\/media-gives-points-for-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Gives Points for Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Kinsley <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/editor-at-large\/view\/article\/Are-Gaffes-Good-27\" target=\"_blank\">hits it on the head<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What the press seems to value is successful spin. As gaffes and the phony umbrage that follows them gradually swallow up our politics, the press has taken on a bizarre role like that of judges in a figure-skating competition, as opposed to referees in a hockey match. What counts is the artistry. Figures in the news get points for successful spin (whether true or not), for a positive image (whether deserved or not), and for avoiding gaffes (that is, for not telling the truth.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And, the GOP being better at spin, or at least more successful at getting people to believe lies (\u201cdeath panels\u201d anyone?), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscommonsense.com\/2010\/06\/wash-post-regurgitates-bailout-myth.html\" target=\"_blank\">gets a better shake<\/a> from the Fourth Estate than Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Kinsley hits it on the head: What the press seems to value is successful spin. As gaffes and the phony umbrage that follows them gradually swallow up our politics, the press has taken on a bizarre role like that of judges in a figure-skating competition, as opposed to referees in a hockey match. What&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/06\/24\/media-gives-points-for-spin\/\">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":[169,126,152],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652"}],"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=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}