{"id":1514,"date":"2005-03-01T11:04:54","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T16:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/pick_me_pick_me\/"},"modified":"2005-03-01T11:04:54","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T16:04:54","slug":"pick_me_pick_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/pick_me_pick_me\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick Me!  Pick Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve noticed the TV news stations are starting to consult &#8220;the bloggers&#8221; for news analysis.  They&#8217;re now getting special segments, and it&#8217;s changing the way the networks report a story.<br \/>\nFor instance, say the powers that be in <a title=\"CIA - The World Factbook -- Nauru\" href=\"http:\/\/www.odci.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/nr.html\">Nauru<\/a> decide to switch their currency from the Australian dollar to the Papua New Guinea kina, triggering a currency crisis in Oceania.  In the good old days the newsies would consult a local journalist (if there was on in Naurau) or more likely pay an academic (&#8220;a Naurau currency analyst&#8221;) to explain to the audience the significance of the Naurauian bombshell.<br \/>\nWith our new media, you might get a journalist (if one exists) and you might get the Naurau currency analyst.  But now you&#8217;ll also get bonus blogoshere coverage.  The anchors will either call in a (1) blogger\/self-appointed blog expert, or (2) their paid Internet web surfers, and ask the question every American wants to know: What are the bloggers saying about the Naurauian currency fiasco?<br \/>\n[Financial aside: I&#8217;m guessing these &#8220;what are the blogs saying&#8221; segments don&#8217;t cost as much as it does to bring in that traditional &#8220;expert&#8221; commentary.]<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure how the network blog readers go about selecting the blogs they feature on TV, but if any of you happen by this site, just drop me an e-mail and I&#8217;ll crank out  some &#8220;expert&#8221; blog analysis on virtually any subject you want.  Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/pick_me_pick_me\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Pick Me!  Pick Me!\"><p>Lately I&#8217;ve noticed the TV news stations are starting to consult &#8220;the bloggers&#8221; for news analysis. They&#8217;re now getting special segments, and it&#8217;s changing the way the networks report a story. For instance, say the powers that be in Nauru decide to switch their currency from the Australian dollar to the Papua New Guinea kina, [&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-1514","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\/1514","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=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}