{"id":185361,"date":"2011-07-20T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/20\/wanker-of-the-day-8\/"},"modified":"2011-07-20T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T02:43:00","slug":"wanker-of-the-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/20\/wanker-of-the-day-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanker of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times Reporter and columnist Frank Bruni, who admits that <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/39304\">he has written opinion pieces about things that he has no knowledge or opinion<\/a>, because he wanted to look cool:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>I&#8217;m glad Bruni feels comfortable admitting that he&#8217;s a poseur. This admission confirms the suspicions I had about Bruni as a political reporter and as a food critic.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to know upfront that your op\/ed columnist is so insecure that he&#8217;ll generate spurious opinions rather than admit that he&#8217;s not well-informed or even interested in the topic at hand.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone fronts from time to time, but it&#8217;s disconcerting to realize that Bruni thinks this bad habit is something to brag about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As an opinion columnist, they have every right to their opinion, but the idea that they would fake having an opinion just boggles the minds.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the rest of Lindsay Beyerstein&#8217;s post on this, it&#8217;s short, and well worth the read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times Reporter and columnist Frank Bruni, who admits that he has written opinion pieces about things that he has no knowledge or opinion, because he wanted to look cool: I&#8217;m glad Bruni feels comfortable admitting that he&#8217;s a poseur. This admission confirms the suspicions I had about Bruni as a political reporter and as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185361"}],"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=185361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}