{"id":1217,"date":"2004-10-17T13:52:48","date_gmt":"2004-10-17T17:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/media_balance\/"},"modified":"2004-10-17T13:52:48","modified_gmt":"2004-10-17T17:52:48","slug":"media_balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/media_balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I&#8217;ve noticed the following composition on a number of news program discussion round tables (not just on Fox News):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Host<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>A couple of mainstream national print writers<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>A right-wing partisan blow hard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s wrong with this picture?<br \/>\nEven if you buy the argument that the journalists are foot soldiers for the &#8220;liberal media,&#8221; at least they attempt to offer objective analysis in the discussion.  And this is supposed to be  the counterbalance to the unapologetic right-wing spin offered by the fourth guest?<br \/>\nAmerica&#8217;s media: fair and balanced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/media_balance\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Media Balance\"><p>Recently I&#8217;ve noticed the following composition on a number of news program discussion round tables (not just on Fox News): Host A couple of mainstream national print writers A right-wing partisan blow hard What&#8217;s wrong with this picture? Even if you buy the argument that the journalists are foot soldiers for the &#8220;liberal media,&#8221; at [&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-1217","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\/1217","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=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}