{"id":6738,"date":"2016-01-19T07:24:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T13:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6738"},"modified":"2016-01-19T07:24:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T13:24:21","slug":"real-harm-to-real-people-from-shoddy-pr-news-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6738","title":{"rendered":"Real harm to real people from shoddy PR news releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.healthnewsreview.org\/2016\/01\/podcast-real-harm-to-real-people-from-shoddy-pr-news-releases\/\">Health News<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>News consumers are often unaware of how much of what they read is dominated by \u2013 and may, in fact, be simply a minimal re-write of \u2013 PR news releases written by people whose job it is to make their institution, their faculty, their ideas, their research or their products look as good as they possibly can.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Today, probably more than ever, many supposedly independently-vetted news stories are actually just mirror images of PR news releases.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health News: News consumers are often unaware of how much of what they read is dominated by \u2013 and may, in fact, be simply a minimal re-write of \u2013 PR news releases written by people whose job it is to make their institution, their faculty, their ideas, their research or their products look as good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738"}],"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=6738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6739,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions\/6739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}