{"id":5262,"date":"2013-07-15T07:57:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T13:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2013-07-15T07:57:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T13:57:05","slug":"snowden-backlash-us-media-get-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5262","title":{"rendered":"Snowden Backlash: US Media Get Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/nsa-spying-scandal-focus-on-edward-snowden-by-us-media-a-911185.html\">Marc Pitzke<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s another reason for the united media front: The Guardian is becoming a competitive threat for American media outlets. The first Snowden video interview received almost seven million clicks on the newspaper&#8217;s US website. &#8220;They set the US news agenda today,&#8221; Associated Press star reporter Matt Apuzzo tweeted enviously.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Janine Gibson, the Guardian&#8217;s American chief, told the Huffington Post that their competition has a &#8220;lack of skepticism on a whole&#8221; when it comes to national security. Critical scrutiny, she said, has been considered &#8220;unpatriotic&#8221; since 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest humiliation would be if the British usurper won a Pulitzer Prize. Only American media can apply for it, but the Prize committee accepted one submission by the Guardian last year. Its reasoning? The newspaper has an &#8220;unmistakable presence&#8221; in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Pitzke: There&#8217;s another reason for the united media front: The Guardian is becoming a competitive threat for American media outlets. The first Snowden video interview received almost seven million clicks on the newspaper&#8217;s US website. &#8220;They set the US news agenda today,&#8221; Associated Press star reporter Matt Apuzzo tweeted enviously. Why? Janine Gibson, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262"}],"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=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}