{"id":917,"date":"2004-05-12T15:17:12","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T19:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/that_liberal_media\/"},"modified":"2004-05-12T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2004-05-12T19:17:12","slug":"that_liberal_media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/that_liberal_media\/","title":{"rendered":"That Liberal Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Wisconsin newspaper runs an editorial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthsuperior.com\/mld\/duluthsuperior\/news\/local\/8646623.htm\">asking readers to send in pro-Bush letters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Faced with a scarcity of letters praising the president, a newspaper in a Republican-leaning district appealed for pro-Bush letters, then backed off the request Tuesday amid complaints of blatant politics.<br \/>\nLast week in an editorial, the <i>Post-Crescent<\/i> of Appleton said most of its letters had been coming from one side and asked readers &#8220;to help us &#8216;balance&#8217; things out.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;ve been getting more letters critical of President Bush than those that support him,&#8221; the editorial said. &#8220;We&#8217;re not sure why, nor do we want to guess. But in today&#8217;s increasingly polarized political environment, we would prefer our offering to put forward a better sense of balance.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm.  Perhaps the newspaper is receiving more critical than positive letters because the president is doing a lousy job.  Just a guess.  Anyway, it appears the Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgewbush.com\/GetActive\/WriteNewspapers.aspx?aid=37\">astro turf generator<\/a> needs revamping.<br \/>\nVia <a href=\"http:\/\/talkleft.com\/new_archives\/006469.html\">TalkLeft<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/that_liberal_media\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to That Liberal Media\"><p>A Wisconsin newspaper runs an editorial asking readers to send in pro-Bush letters: Faced with a scarcity of letters praising the president, a newspaper in a Republican-leaning district appealed for pro-Bush letters, then backed off the request Tuesday amid complaints of blatant politics. Last week in an editorial, the Post-Crescent of Appleton said most of [&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-917","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\/917","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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}