{"id":413,"date":"2008-10-10T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2008\/10\/10\/ny-times-mccain-made-us-do-it\/"},"modified":"2008-10-10T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T17:00:27","slug":"ny-times-mccain-made-us-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2008\/10\/10\/ny-times-mccain-made-us-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times: McCain Made Us Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"

You often hear from conservatives that the mainstream media are in the tank for Obama.  I wonder how many conservatives are going to object to a startling admission<\/a> by the New York Times.<\/p>\n

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[Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times] told Politico that the paper was motivated to report out the [former 60s radical William] Ayers link because the McCain campaign has been pushing it \u2014 not the other way around. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve reported the Ayers relationship before, and we had it on our \u2018to do\u2019 list for a while to take a more comprehensive look,\u201d Keller said, in an e-mail. \u201cWhen the McCain campaign began to make it a major focal point of ads and stump speeches, we decided the time was right.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt didn’t take any prodding,\u201d Keller continued. \u201cWhen the conversation on something controversial reaches a certain level, curious readers look to The Times to help them sort the facts from the fictions and figure out what to make of it. That’s what we did.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other words, because John McCain wanted to spread the story — one that has been reported many times since the connection between Obama and Ayers first surfaced — the Times obliged.<\/p>\n

I’ll say this ’til I’m blue in the face:  Demand the media cover a a story you want and they will oblige.  They have relinquished any pretense of being a filter.  They are simply a conduit for whatever campaigns want, if the story is salacious or likely to be controversial.<\/p>\n

Let’s prepare for the in-depth story of whether evolution or creationism is the true science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You often hear from conservatives that the mainstream media are in the tank for Obama.  I wonder how many conservatives are going to object to a startling admission by the New York Times. [Bill Keller, executive editor of The Times] told Politico that the paper was motivated to report out the [former 60s radical William]… 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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"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=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}