{"id":178007,"date":"2019-04-02T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/02\/things-i-wont-discuss-in-2019\/"},"modified":"2019-04-02T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T23:15:00","slug":"things-i-wont-discuss-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/02\/things-i-wont-discuss-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Won&#8217;t Discuss in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/436884-sanders-campaign-says-it-raised-182-million-in-first-quarter-of-2019\">I will no longer discuss the fundraising hauls of various candidates<\/a>. (the link is about Bernie crushing it)<\/p>\n<p>I understand that campaign donations numbers are a fixture in political coverage, but that is bad and lazy journalism.<\/p>\n<p>This sort of coverage is more than bad, it is damaging.<\/p>\n<p>It replaces the discussion of real issues with meaningful horse race coverage.<\/p>\n<p>I fear that the press coverage this cycle will make 2016 coverage look like Edward R. Murrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until 2020, I will no longer discuss the fundraising hauls of various candidates. (the link is about Bernie crushing it) I understand that campaign donations numbers are a fixture in political coverage, but that is bad and lazy journalism. This sort of coverage is more than bad, it is damaging. It replaces the discussion of &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":[513,490,405],"class_list":["post-178007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-campaign-finance","tag-hack-journalism","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178007"}],"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=178007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}