{"id":2913,"date":"2007-06-01T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T10:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2007-06-01T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T10:18:58","slug":"d_conference_no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2913","title":{"rendered":"D Conference Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordyard.com\/2007\/06\/01\/d-highlights\/\">Scott Rosenberg<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Walt Mossberg asked CBS CEO Les Moonves about Al Gore\u2019s critique of television culture in his new book, The Assault on Reason. \u201cGore said that TV in general has basically destroyed American democracy. He says the Internet is the hope \u2013\u201d<br \/>\nMoonves interrupted: \u201cThat\u2019s because he created it.\u201d<br \/>\nMossberg grimaced. There was not a single laugh in the room.<br \/>\nIt is one sign of hope for the world today that this dead old line \u2014 discredited eons ago \u2014 now evokes only contempt.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, here is Moonves\u2019s stirring defense of his medium against the complaint that TV caters to too much of our love for celebrity news at the expense of more pressing issues: \u201cI think there are other things that may have hurt the fabric of democracy more than the media.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Rosenberg: Walt Mossberg asked CBS CEO Les Moonves about Al Gore\u2019s critique of television culture in his new book, The Assault on Reason. \u201cGore said that TV in general has basically destroyed American democracy. He says the Internet is the hope \u2013\u201d Moonves interrupted: \u201cThat\u2019s because he created it.\u201d Mossberg grimaced. There was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913"}],"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=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}