{"id":1493,"date":"2005-02-10T12:32:47","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T17:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/churchill_flap\/"},"modified":"2005-02-10T12:32:47","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T17:32:47","slug":"churchill_flap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/02\/churchill_flap\/","title":{"rendered":"Churchill Flap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was channel surfing the newsies last night, and without looking for it, I noted that at least three shows (two on CNN) headlined with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akpress.org\/about\/wardchurchill\">Professer Ward Churchill controversy<\/a>.  This might have been a pretty newsworthy story . . . three years ago when he wrote the essay.<br \/>\nSo why was it dominating the air waves last night?  Because the right wing noise factory has pushed it to the forefront of the media, with the so-called &#8220;liberal&#8221; media dutifully marching in step.<br \/>\nJust another example of how conservatives, not liberals, establish the media&#8217;s agenda.<br \/>\nUPDATE: By the way, while other program hosts were ranting about whether or not a Colorado professor committed treason three years ago,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3036677\/\">Keith Olbermann<\/a> had a pretty good piece on the infestation of the White House press corps by a bogus journalist.<br \/>\nIf you aren&#8217;t watching The Keith, you should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/02\/churchill_flap\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Churchill Flap\"><p>I was channel surfing the newsies last night, and without looking for it, I noted that at least three shows (two on CNN) headlined with the Professer Ward Churchill controversy. This might have been a pretty newsworthy story . . . three years ago when he wrote the essay. So why was it dominating the [&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-1493","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\/1493","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=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}