{"id":197610,"date":"2008-01-22T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/22\/strange-political-season-actual-journalism-observed\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T03:35:00","slug":"strange-political-season-actual-journalism-observed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/22\/strange-political-season-actual-journalism-observed\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Political Season:  Actual Journalism Observed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I though that journalism was extinct in the wild, existing only within specific preserves, like <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Daily Show<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Countdown, With Keith Olbermann<\/span>, but it appears that a specimen has escaped to the wilds of ABC.<\/p>\n<p>In a report on his nationwide cable TV buys, which BTW are a very good idea in terms of bang for the buck, the Obama stated that, &#8220;The DNC has consistently said that we have not broken that pledge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well it appears that ABC News&#8217; Teddy Davis <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalradar\/2008\/01\/obama-wrong-abo.html\">actually checked the facts about that claim<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Obama&#8217;s claim is not true.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DNC has not weighed in on the pledge because it was a pledge with the state party chairs from the four early states, not the DNC,&#8221; DNC spokeswoman Stacie Paxton told ABC News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m stunned and amazed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also waiting for the same scrutiny to be applied to Senator <strike>Keating 5<\/strike> McCain.<\/p>\n<p>It will probably be a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I though that journalism was extinct in the wild, existing only within specific preserves, like The Daily Show and Countdown, With Keith Olbermann, but it appears that a specimen has escaped to the wilds of ABC. In a report on his nationwide cable TV buys, which BTW are a very good idea in terms 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":[1129,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197610"}],"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=197610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}