{"id":1125,"date":"2005-03-07T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2005-03-07T00:00:42","modified_gmt":"2005-03-07T00:00:42","slug":"whats_missing_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Missing from News is News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Rich <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/03\/06\/arts\/06rich.html?ex=1267592400&#038;en=2f1b3ae34048c423&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">nails<\/a> it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>What&#8217;s missing from News is the news. On ABC, Peter Jennings devotes two hours of prime time to playing peek-a-boo with U.F.O. fanatics, a whorish stunt crafted to deliver ratings, not information. On NBC, Brian Williams is busy as all get-out, as every promo reminds us, &#8220;Reporting America&#8217;s Story.&#8221; That story just happens to be the relentless branding of Brian Williams as America&#8217;s anchorman &#8211; a guy just too in love with Folks Like Us to waste his time looking closely at, say, anything happening in Washington.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Even NPR.  I woke up the other morning at 6 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/rundowns\/rundown.php?prgId=3\">Morning Edition&#8217;s<\/a> lead story was Martha Stewart (not Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq, the dollar&#8217;s ongoing meltdown, or any of a number of domestic issues).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Rich nails it: What&#8217;s missing from News is the news. On ABC, Peter Jennings devotes two hours of prime time to playing peek-a-boo with U.F.O. fanatics, a whorish stunt crafted to deliver ratings, not information. On NBC, Brian Williams is busy as all get-out, as every promo reminds us, &#8220;Reporting America&#8217;s Story.&#8221; That story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}