{"id":1534,"date":"2005-03-10T01:49:39","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T06:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/hard_to_watch\/"},"modified":"2005-03-10T01:49:39","modified_gmt":"2005-03-10T06:49:39","slug":"hard_to_watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/hard_to_watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me or has it been extremely hard to watch TV news lately?  Let me count the ways:<br \/>\nJacko<br \/>\nMartha Stewart&#8217;s pullover<br \/>\nHillary<br \/>\nDan Rather<br \/>\nAnd what the heck happened to CNN Headline News in the evening?  I never really watched it much.   But when I did, I expected to see, you know, news.  Not another Court TV channel.<br \/>\nWhenever people talk about the network evening news broadcast ratings going down the toilet, they cite the availability of other news outlets&#8211;cable TV and the Internet&#8211;as a contributing factor.  Up to this point, I&#8217;d been skeptical of the latter reason, since it&#8217;s usually more stimulating to watch video than read news articles online.  But if TV news keeps this up I may soon be joining those who rely on the Internet as their primary news source.<br \/>\nUPDATE:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadcastingcable.com\/article\/CA506956.html?display=Breaking%2BNews&#038;referral=SUPP\">Oh brother<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/hard_to_watch\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Hard To Watch\"><p>Is it just me or has it been extremely hard to watch TV news lately? Let me count the ways: Jacko Martha Stewart&#8217;s pullover Hillary Dan Rather And what the heck happened to CNN Headline News in the evening? I never really watched it much. But when I did, I expected to see, you know, [&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-1534","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\/1534","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=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}