{"id":1076,"date":"2004-08-11T03:44:40","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T07:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/terrorists_for_kerry\/"},"modified":"2004-08-11T03:44:40","modified_gmt":"2004-08-11T07:44:40","slug":"terrorists_for_kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/terrorists_for_kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists For Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Forbes.com announced that it was experimenting with a sponsored link technology which allowed it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/business\/businesstech\/feeds\/ap\/2004\/08\/03\/ap1488610.html\">embed links to advertisers within news stories<\/a> on the website.  So, for example, if an article mentions &#8220;Ford,&#8221; the page might have a link on the word that would take the reader to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ford.com\/en\/default.htm\">Ford Motor Company<\/a>.<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m not an expert in journalistic ethics, but it seems to me that even with a firewall between the writers\/editors and the advertising, this kind of an arrangement is bound to have an influence over news content sooner or later.<br \/>\nAt any rate, it looks like the <i>Washington Times<\/i> has come up with the next best thing.  Today Bill Gertz has an article <a title=\"Bin Laden hints major assassination\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/national\/20040811-123531-3824r.htm\">outlining the newest terror threat warnings<\/a>.  In the middle of the piece is this blurb, anonymously sourced, of course:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The goal of the next attack is twofold: to damage the U.S. economy and to undermine the U.S. election,&#8221; the official said. &#8220;The view of al Qaeda is &#8216;anybody but Bush.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Catchy phrase, that, &#8220;Anyone but Bush&#8221;?  So catchy that near the top of the article (when I viewed it) there&#8217;s a banner ad linking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.authenticgop.com\/\">this site<\/a> which reads &#8220;10 out of 10 Terrorists Agree: <i>Anybody But Bush<\/i><\/a>.<br \/>\nInteresting coincidence, eh?  What are the odds that a <i>Washington Times<\/i> piece just happens to work in concert with a GOP-leaning ad?  But I guess a newspaper has got to do what a newspaper must do to get its &#8220;information&#8221; out.<br \/>\nAfter all, &#8220;who would Osama vote for?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/terrorists_for_kerry\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Terrorists For Kerry\"><p>Last week Forbes.com announced that it was experimenting with a sponsored link technology which allowed it to embed links to advertisers within news stories on the website. So, for example, if an article mentions &#8220;Ford,&#8221; the page might have a link on the word that would take the reader to the Ford Motor Company. Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}