{"id":199,"date":"2009-08-14T11:31:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T15:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/08\/14\/media-incompetence\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T11:31:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T15:31:28","slug":"media-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/08\/14\/media-incompetence\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Incompetence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/14\/opinion\/14krugman.html\">Another voice<\/a> calling for calling a lie a lie.&#160; Obama\u2019s hope for a new kind of politics because of media\u2019s incompetence.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I warned that his vision of a \u201cdifferent kind of politics\u201d was a vain hope, that any Democrat who made it to the White House would face \u201can unending procession of wild charges and fake scandals, dutifully given credence by major media organizations that somehow can\u2019t bring themselves to declare the accusations unequivocally false.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Krugman goes on to challenge Obama to get better at delivering his healthcare reform message.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It would certainly help if he gave clearer and more concise explanations of his health care plan. To be fair, he\u2019s gotten much better at that over the past couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s still missing, however, is a sense of passion and outrage \u2014 passion for the goal of ensuring that every American gets the health care he or she needs, outrage at the lies and fear-mongering that are being used to block that goal. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What Krugman leaves out is that it is up to Obama to challenge MSM to engage in something remotely related to responsible journalism.&#160; Right now, MSM is letting the cable news echo chamber define the debate.&#160; At least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/14\/health\/policy\/14panel.html?hp\">the New York Times is trying<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another voice calling for calling a lie a lie.&#160; Obama\u2019s hope for a new kind of politics because of media\u2019s incompetence. I warned that his vision of a \u201cdifferent kind of politics\u201d was a vain hope, that any Democrat who made it to the White House would face \u201can unending procession of wild charges and&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/08\/14\/media-incompetence\/\">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":[35,36,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}