{"id":176886,"date":"2020-02-26T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/26\/adventures-in-cowardice\/"},"modified":"2020-02-26T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:25:00","slug":"adventures-in-cowardice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/26\/adventures-in-cowardice\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Cowardice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News, which has has been targeted by James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Veritas Project, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/media\/abc-news-suspends-correspondent-david-wright-after-project-veritas-sting\/2020\/02\/26\/764efc06-5849-11ea-9b35-def5a027d470_story.html\">has responded by complete capitulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why our media sucks wet farts from dead pigeons:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">ABC News suspended one of its veteran correspondents late Tuesday for unguarded remarks he made in a video by operatives of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectveritas.com\/\">Project Veritas<\/a>, the conservative group that records \u201cundercover\u201d footage of mainstream journalists to bolster its accusations of media bias.<\/p>\n<p>The network disciplined <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/author\/david_wright\">David Wright<\/a>, who reports for ABC\u2019s signature news programs, including \u201cWorld News Tonight,\u201d \u201cGood Morning America\u201d and \u201cNightline,\u201d several people confirmed late Tuesday.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was venting at a bar, and he was venting about how ABC was more interested about eyeballs and ratings than it was about actual news.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the horror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News, which has has been targeted by James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Veritas Project, has responded by complete capitulation. Why our media sucks wet farts from dead pigeons: ABC News suspended one of its veteran correspondents late Tuesday for unguarded remarks he made in a video by operatives of Project Veritas, the conservative group that records \u201cundercover\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,585,364,490,387,385],"class_list":["post-176886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-cowardice","tag-evil","tag-hack-journalism","tag-hypocrisy","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}