{"id":1731,"date":"2009-10-15T22:04:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T02:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/10\/15\/msnbc-slanders-boy-in-balloon-family\/"},"modified":"2009-10-15T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T02:04:58","slug":"msnbc-slanders-boy-in-balloon-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/10\/15\/msnbc-slanders-boy-in-balloon-family\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Slanders ‘Boy in Balloon’ Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:  Given the reports that are now coming out<\/a>, it appears the family deserves if not a flogging, certainly an admonishment.  The dad may wind up with a jail sentence.<\/p>\n

Per my earlier real time post<\/a>, here is the clip from Ed Schultz\u2019s show tonight about the boy in the bubble and his \u201cs-t-r-a-n-g-e\u201d family.  It\u2019s clear that MSNBC\u2019s editors wanted to milk this story for all it was worth, even if it meant putting this family through a public flogging.  As the media showed footage of an object perhaps falling from the balloon, they feared their son was lying somewhere after falling thousands of feet to his death.  <\/p>\n

Once it was learned he was OK, MSNBC and Schultz tried in every way to paint the family as irresponsible.  Listen to Schultz\u2019s inquisition.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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After this segment, Arianna Huffington was the guest.  He asked her what she thought of the story.  After saying that it was indeed a strange story, she asked, \u201cNow that he is found, why are we still talking about this?\u201d<\/p>\n

I can never seem to upload MSNBC videos (the one above is from YouTube), so here\u2019s the link — http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21134540\/vp\/33335050#33335050<\/a>.  It was quite an argument.<\/p>\n

When I told my wife about this, she, as she is wont to do, cut to the chase.  \u201cIt\u2019s the 24-hour news cycle.  They got to have something talk about.  We need a law:  They can only air news at 10, 2 & 6 \u2013 for one hour.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an idea worth considering.  Well, it\u2019s at least as good as the journalism practiced here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:  Given the reports that are now coming out, it appears the family deserves if not a flogging, certainly an admonishment.  The dad may wind up with a jail sentence. Per my earlier real time post, here is the clip from Ed Schultz\u2019s show tonight about the boy in the bubble and his \u201cs-t-r-a-n-g-e\u201d family. … 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":[144,203,146],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731"}],"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=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}