{"id":2162,"date":"2007-02-21T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/02\/the_state_of_tv\/"},"modified":"2007-02-21T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T20:21:08","slug":"the_state_of_tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/02\/the_state_of_tv\/","title":{"rendered":"The State Of TV Newsertainment Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

This “warning”<\/a> in Brian Williams’ blog pretty well sums it up:<\/p>\n

Viewer warning: There will be no mention of Britney Spears’ baldness or rehab in tonight’s broadcast, nor will there be any mention of Anna Nicole’s “body possession” hearing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I didn’t stop to watch, but flipping through the channels, appeared that last night Larry King Live<\/em> devoted a prime-time program to the pressing issue of where Anna Nicole Smith will be buried. I trust the most trusted name in news will be all over the story when that landmark decision is issued.
\nAnd, via TVNewser<\/a>, I read this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The subject: St. Petersburg’s Jennifer Mee, a 15-year-old who started hiccuping four weeks ago today and has yet to stop.
\nThe competition for her story became so frenzied over the weekend that NBC’s Today show changed Jennifer and her mother’s New York hotel after another network’s exhaustive attempts to get an interview.
\n. . .
\nRepresentatives from ABC’s Good Morning America called Jennifer’s home 57 times on Sunday and slipped notes under her hotel room door, her family said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You gotta hand it to GMA<\/em> for its efforts: 57 attempts to get the inside story on a girl hiccuping. It’s because of this kind of commitment to journalism that Americans are so aware of what’s happening in the world today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This “warning” in Brian Williams’ blog pretty well sums it up: Viewer warning: There will be no mention of Britney Spears’ baldness or rehab in tonight’s broadcast, nor will there be any mention of Anna Nicole’s “body possession” hearing. I didn’t stop to watch, but flipping through the channels, appeared that last night Larry King […]<\/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-2162","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\/2162","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=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}