{"id":200410,"date":"2021-04-17T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/17\/headline-of-the-day-158\/"},"modified":"2021-04-17T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T23:28:00","slug":"headline-of-the-day-158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/04\/17\/headline-of-the-day-158\/","title":{"rendered":"Headline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 120%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Political Reporters Are Hurting America, So How about Getting Rid Of Most Of Them?<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/presswatchers.org\/2021\/04\/political-reporters-are-hurting-america-so-how-about-getting-rid-of-most-of-them\/\">Dan Froomkin<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s completely right.<\/p>\n<p>The coverage of politics in isolation from actually doing stuff produces hack journalism focusing on, &#8220;The Game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Political reporters know nothing about anything <b>BUT<\/b> politics, and hold this as a badge of honor, and because their beat gives them license to write about everything, because politics is more often than not a triviality, it touches on everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Reporters Are Hurting America, So How about Getting Rid Of Most Of Them? \u2014Dan Froomkin He&#8217;s completely right. The coverage of politics in isolation from actually doing stuff produces hack journalism focusing on, &#8220;The Game.&#8221; Political reporters know nothing about anything BUT politics, and hold this as a badge of honor, and because their &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[974,1129,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-journalism","category-journalism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200410"}],"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=200410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}