{"id":964,"date":"2004-06-11T14:39:19","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T18:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/farewell_to_reagan_funeral_cov\/"},"modified":"2004-06-11T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2004-06-11T18:39:19","slug":"farewell_to_reagan_funeral_cov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/farewell_to_reagan_funeral_cov\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Reagan Funeral Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <i>think<\/i> we&#8217;re almost to the end of this.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8211;I&#8217;m not trying to understate the historical significance of the death of a president.  But did we have to have all of the cable channels devote every news show to it for an entire week?<br \/>\nI think two factors are at play here: (1) broadcasters have been saving up for this event for a while and want to get all their material in; and (2) on a day-to-day basis networks do a lousy job of putting stories in a historical context, so now it&#8217;s time to catch up and educate everyone on President Reagan.  It would be nice to see a little more objectivity and a little less rosy historical revisionism if that&#8217;s what they want to do.<br \/>\nOne side benefit from this has been that the Scott Peterson trial coverage has been muted this week.  Expect the hype to resume in full force on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/farewell_to_reagan_funeral_cov\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Farewell to Reagan Funeral Coverage\"><p>I think we&#8217;re almost to the end of this. Don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8211;I&#8217;m not trying to understate the historical significance of the death of a president. But did we have to have all of the cable channels devote every news show to it for an entire week? I think two factors are at play here: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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-964","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\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}