{"id":1744,"date":"2009-09-27T18:05:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T22:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/09\/27\/must-be-the-other-guy\/"},"modified":"2009-09-27T18:05:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T22:05:45","slug":"must-be-the-other-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/09\/27\/must-be-the-other-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Be the Other Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anson Dorrance, the famed University of North Carolina women\u2019s soccer coach, once said that there was a key difference between coaching men and women athletes.  When you go into the locker room, he said, and chew out the men\u2019s team for mistakes, every guy there looks around to those who he thinks were the culprits.  It never occurs to him that he could be the problem.  A woman internalizes the criticism and thinks the coach is specifically talking about her.<\/p>\n

So it is with reporters, I thought, as I read Jonathan Martin\u2019s story about Obama being a media critic<\/a>.  Martin assumes he\u2019s talking only about cable news.  That\u2019s particularly ironic, given that Martin\u2019s employer, Politico, <\/em>focuses exclusively on the to and fro of political grenades.<\/p>\n

The irony aside, I welcome another article about Obama doing just what many of us hoped he would<\/a>:  attack the media.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt feels like WWF wrestling,\u201d Obama explained to NBC\u2019s Brian Williams in an interview. \u201cYou know, everybody\u2019s got their role to play.\u201d <\/p>\n

The off-the-cuff characterization was in keeping with his newly emerging role, squeezed in between East Room ceremonies and pushing for health care reform: the commander in chief is becoming the nation\u2019s media critic in chief. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While Martin spends much of the article pointing out examples of Obama\u2019s frustration with cable news, one thing Martin is blind to:  Many news outlets, including Politico<\/em>, let cable gabfests drive their news agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anson Dorrance, the famed University of North Carolina women\u2019s soccer coach, once said that there was a key difference between coaching men and women athletes.  When you go into the locker room, he said, and chew out the men\u2019s team for mistakes, every guy there looks around to those who he thinks were the culprits. … 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":[144,90,142],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744"}],"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=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}