{"id":1756,"date":"2009-09-16T17:15:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T21:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/09\/16\/what-has-joe-wilson-caused-you-to-miss-today\/"},"modified":"2009-09-16T17:15:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T21:15:38","slug":"what-has-joe-wilson-caused-you-to-miss-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/09\/16\/what-has-joe-wilson-caused-you-to-miss-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What Has Joe Wilson Caused You to Miss Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post has a front page story<\/a> about all the political anger and the \u201canger about the anger.\u201d  Yes, there are the big 3 Ws that are getting attention \u2013 Wilson, Williams & West.  While it is a legitimate follow-up story to the Congressman\u2019s outburst, what coverage is it crowding out at newspapers around the country.  In the story, Joel Achenbach shares what we missed hearing about.<\/p>\n

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Throughout the day, the "House triangle" — the spot where lawmakers speak to the cameras, the Capitol angling away in the background — was a scene of heavy traffic. First there was a health-care news conference at 10 a.m. with parents of disabled children. Then, at 11, the issue was same-sex marriage. At noon, the prayer vigil took place. As the vigil was breaking up, a gaggle of college kids poured into the triangle, some members of Congress and staff gathered, and a black Suburban pulled up and disgorged Education Secretary Arne Duncan. <\/p>\n

"This is a big, big deal," Duncan said into the microphones. Everyone on hand knew he was referring to the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 — "the largest investment in college education since the G.I. Bill." <\/p>\n

But his media turnout was relatively feeble.<\/p>\n

\u2026Somewhere along the way, five senators tried to drum up publicity with a news conference on the "national dairy crisis." Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified about flu pandemics. House lawmakers held a hearing on whether humanity has a destiny in space. Toss in hearings on ambassadorial nominations, a transportation bill, a measure on funding health-care benefits for Postal Service retirees, and so on. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One can argue that at least some of these stories are not that important.  But student loans, transportation, the flu?  Aren\u2019t some of these more important than Joe Wilson?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post has a front page story about all the political anger and the \u201canger about the anger.\u201d  Yes, there are the big 3 Ws that are getting attention \u2013 Wilson, Williams & West.  While it is a legitimate follow-up story to the Congressman\u2019s outburst, what coverage is it crowding out at newspapers around… 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":[212,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756"}],"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=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}