{"id":177453,"date":"2019-09-17T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/17\/npr-navel-gazing\/"},"modified":"2019-09-17T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T23:16:00","slug":"npr-navel-gazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/17\/npr-navel-gazing\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Navel Gazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m listening to the Cokie fest at NPR on the news of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/17\/obituaries\/cokie-roberts-dead.html\">the death of Cokie Roberts of breast cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I get that she is a significant figure from the early days of the network, and certainly her passing should be noted, but the wall-to-wall coverage was excessive.<\/p>\n<p>If it had been Sy Hersh, or Bob Woodward, or Carl Bernstein, there would have been a 5 minute appreciation.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that a number of people at National Public Radio feel this loss personally, but you are supposed to be journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Suck it up, and leave space for other news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m listening to the Cokie fest at NPR on the news of the death of Cokie Roberts of breast cancer. I get that she is a significant figure from the early days of the network, and certainly her passing should be noted, but the wall-to-wall coverage was excessive. If it had been Sy Hersh, or &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":[490,507],"class_list":["post-177453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hack-journalism","tag-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177453"}],"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=177453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}