{"id":208,"date":"2009-08-05T19:06:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T23:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/08\/05\/stifling-free-speech\/"},"modified":"2009-08-05T19:06:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T23:06:23","slug":"stifling-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/08\/05\/stifling-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Stifling Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0809\/CNN_wont_air_AUC_ad.html\">refusing to air an ad<\/a> by supporters of healthcare reform.&#160;&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the reason:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis ad does not comply with our clearance guidelines because it unnecessarily singles out an individual company and person.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, does that mean they will no longer run ads that single out individual politicians?&#160; Or is that \u201cnecessary\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t it ironic that an organization protected by free speech denies it to others.<\/p>\n<p>This is happening frequently.&#160; CNN also <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/press\/releases\/200908040007\">refused to air an ad by Media Matters<\/a> about Lou Dobbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN is refusing to air an ad by supporters of healthcare reform.&#160;&#160;&#160; Here\u2019s the reason: \u201cThis ad does not comply with our clearance guidelines because it unnecessarily singles out an individual company and person.\u201d Gee, does that mean they will no longer run ads that single out individual politicians?&#160; Or is that \u201cnecessary\u201d? Isn\u2019t it&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/08\/05\/stifling-free-speech\/\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}