{"id":1339,"date":"2004-12-20T00:57:48","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T05:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/saving_merry_christmas\/"},"modified":"2004-12-20T00:57:48","modified_gmt":"2004-12-20T05:57:48","slug":"saving_merry_christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/saving_merry_christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has apparently become an even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2004_12\/005350.php\">bigger media issue<\/a> than it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/archives\/001331.html\">just a few days ago<\/a>.<br \/>\nThat liberal media.<br \/>\nHow do these hot issues bubble up to the forefront?  Atrios offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2004_12_19_atrios_archive.html#110350312972978984\">a typical flow chart<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Local News &#8211;> Free Republic &#8211;> Drudge &#8211;> Talk Radio &#8211;> Some Wingnut Congressperson\/State Legislator &#8211;> Fox News &#8211;> Lou Dobbs\/Scarborough\/etc&#8230; &#8211;> Another round on local news &#8211;> CNN &#8211;> mainstream print media. [order can vary slightly].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done any scientific research on this, but I&#8217;d guess the length of the above cycle has been reduced by at least 1\/3 over the last three or four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/saving_merry_christmas\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Saving &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221;\"><p>This has apparently become an even bigger media issue than it was just a few days ago. That liberal media. How do these hot issues bubble up to the forefront? Atrios offers a a typical flow chart: Local News &#8211;> Free Republic &#8211;> Drudge &#8211;> Talk Radio &#8211;> Some Wingnut Congressperson\/State Legislator &#8211;> Fox News [&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-1339","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\/1339","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=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}