{"id":188400,"date":"2010-10-05T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/05\/a-reason-to-consider-subscribing-to-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2010-10-05T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T00:03:00","slug":"a-reason-to-consider-subscribing-to-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/05\/a-reason-to-consider-subscribing-to-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reason to Consider Subscribing to the  Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a reason to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">actually<\/span> subscribe, mind you, it&#8217;s still a cesspool of conventional thinking and bad access journalism (Hi, Bob Woodward) but the fact that the professional hack masquerading as a media critic, Howard Kurtz is <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/05\/veteran-washington-post-writer-heads-to-the-daily-beast\/\">leaving the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span> and moving to the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Daily Beast<\/span><\/a>, Tina Brown&#8217;s online news web site.<\/p>\n<p>Well the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span>&#8216;s gain is Tina Brown&#8217;s loss.<\/p>\n<p>He is, after all, a guy who writes on cable news while pulling down a 6-figure income from CNN, and writes on politics while his wife pulls down a 6-figure income as a Republican political consultant.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s a reason  second source anything that you see on the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Daily Beast<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a reason to actually subscribe, mind you, it&#8217;s still a cesspool of conventional thinking and bad access journalism (Hi, Bob Woodward) but the fact that the professional hack masquerading as a media critic, Howard Kurtz is leaving the Washington Post and moving to the Daily Beast, Tina Brown&#8217;s online news web site. Well the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,974,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-hack-journalism","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188400"}],"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=188400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}