{"id":470,"date":"2004-08-22T17:31:17","date_gmt":"2004-08-22T17:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=470"},"modified":"2004-08-22T17:31:17","modified_gmt":"2004-08-22T17:31:17","slug":"the_emporer_has_no_clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"The Emporer Has No Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a fascinating discussion online regarding John Kerry&#8217;s Vietnam war record statements vis a vis the media&#8217;s attention to President Bush&#8217;s Vietnam era National Guard service <i>(Note: I&#8217;m no fan of either one)<\/i>.  The story illustrates, however, the terrible condition of many major media organizations.<br \/>\nI always thought the purpose of news organizations was to inform (perhaps that&#8217;s an idealistic approach) the thinking public. Thank God for the internet, and our ability to route around these outages (the first blogger, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\">Dave Winer<\/a>, started largely because the tech press infrequently got things right).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/017305.php\">Instapundit<\/a> &#8211; where the story started.  Reynolds follows up with a <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/017314.php\">useful strategy for Kerry<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investors.com\/editorial\/issues.asp?v=8\/23\">Investor&#8217;s Business Daily<\/a> Editorial<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;The bias is pervasive. As the Media Research Center, a media watchdog, pointed out, ABC, CBS and NBC did 75 stories on charges Bush was &#8220;AWOL&#8221; from the National Guard. They did nine on claims Kerry fibbed about his war record. Biased might be too kind a description.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/007561.php\">Powerline<\/a>, on the Minneapolis Star Tribune Editorial Process\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/daschlevthune.typepad.com\/daschle_v_thune\/2004\/08\/quote.html\">Jon Lauck<\/a>, on the largest South Dakota Newspaper&#8217;s approach.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000640.php\">Newspaper<\/a> circulation problems\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/usnews\/issue\/040830\/opinion\/30barone.htm\">Michael Barone<\/a><\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0107946\/stories\/2004\/08\/22\/dontTalkWhileImInterrupting.html\">Ed Cone pens<\/a> a timely column on our deteriorating level of political discourse.<br \/>\nAnother useful perspective: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/22\/arts\/television\/X22ZENG.html?ex=1250913600&#038;en=878b5c26961d90ee&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">Jason Zengerle on the state<\/a> of the George W. Bush joke.<br \/>\nUPDATE: This link has been passed around a bit.  It&#8217;s interesting to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/082004\/144142215.jpg\">who is having a look<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a fascinating discussion online regarding John Kerry&#8217;s Vietnam war record statements vis a vis the media&#8217;s attention to President Bush&#8217;s Vietnam era National Guard service (Note: I&#8217;m no fan of either one). The story illustrates, however, the terrible condition of many major media organizations. I always thought the purpose of news organizations was [&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\/470"}],"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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}