{"id":2204,"date":"2007-07-02T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T14:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/mika_mania\/"},"modified":"2007-07-02T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T14:32:24","slug":"mika_mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/07\/mika_mania\/","title":{"rendered":"Mika Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week MSNBC&#8217;s Mika Brzezinski created a stir (and earned bonus points with me) for refusing to read the Paris Hilton release story on the air:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6VdNcCcweL0\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6VdNcCcweL0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n[Note the video has already received 1.5 million hits.]<br \/>\nTVNewser notes that Ms. Brzezinski&#8217;s rebellion has earned her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/msnbc\/mika_brzezinski_has_become_a_heroine_62172.asp\">widespread acclaim<\/a>.<br \/>\nIf so many people apparently did <em>not<\/em> want hear the Hilton &#8220;news&#8221; one wonders why MSNBC and all the other TV news stations were hyping it so much.<br \/>\nIn a related note Joe Scarborough is apparently making the move from <em>Scarborough Country<\/em> to <em>Morning Joe<\/em> a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/msnbc\/bye_scarborough_country_hello_morning_joe_and_live_w_dan_abrams_62171.asp\">permanent one<\/a>.  In the clip above, Scarborough suggests one of the reasons he&#8217;s for this is because he won&#8217;t be forced to do all that &#8220;HollyWeird&#8221; stuff.  Good for him if he&#8217;s found a way to avoid doing tabloid TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/07\/mika_mania\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Mika Mania\"><p>Last week MSNBC&#8217;s Mika Brzezinski created a stir (and earned bonus points with me) for refusing to read the Paris Hilton release story on the air: [Note the video has already received 1.5 million hits.] TVNewser notes that Ms. Brzezinski&#8217;s rebellion has earned her widespread acclaim. If so many people apparently did not want hear [&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-2204","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\/2204","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=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}