{"id":1706,"date":"2010-02-18T10:34:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T15:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/02\/18\/george-will-slams-media\/"},"modified":"2010-02-18T10:34:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T15:34:48","slug":"george-will-slams-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/02\/18\/george-will-slams-media\/","title":{"rendered":"George Will Slams Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/17\/AR2010021703507.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\" target=\"_blank\">Will\u2019s column<\/a> is more about the futility of populism, his last graph puts a knife in today\u2019s journalists.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election. But <strong>today&#8217;s saturation journalism, mesmerized by presidential politics and ravenous for material, requires a steady stream of political novelties. In that role, Palin is united with the media in a relationship of mutual loathing.<\/strong> This is not her fault. But neither is it her validation. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, it is to MSM\u2019s advantage to make Palin credible as she is a ratings draw.&#160; So they will not ignore her; they will give her attention that any other female politician who deserted her constituents would not get, especially if they weren\u2019t as attractive physically as she is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Will\u2019s column is more about the futility of populism, his last graph puts a knife in today\u2019s journalists. Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election. But today&#8217;s saturation journalism, mesmerized by presidential politics and ravenous for material,&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/02\/18\/george-will-slams-media\/\">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":[131,121,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706"}],"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=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}