{"id":178681,"date":"2018-09-21T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/21\/think-about-this-at-pledge-time\/"},"modified":"2018-09-21T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T00:05:00","slug":"think-about-this-at-pledge-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/21\/think-about-this-at-pledge-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Think About this at Pledge Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s <i>Morning Edition<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/morning-editions-think-tank-sources-lean-to-the-right\/\">chooses think tank experts of a seriously right wing bent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am not surprised.<\/p>\n<p>It is the rule, rather than the exception, that they choose a right wing flack to discuss the issues of the day with a studiously impartial journalist.<\/p>\n<p>That, and their jihad against low power radio stations, are both good reasons not to give at pledge time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition chooses think tank experts of a seriously right wing bent. I am not surprised. It is the rule, rather than the exception, that they choose a right wing flack to discuss the issues of the day with a studiously impartial journalist. That, and their jihad against low power radio stations, are both &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":[490,385],"class_list":["post-178681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hack-journalism","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178681"}],"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=178681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}