{"id":716,"date":"2004-11-12T18:41:19","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=716"},"modified":"2004-11-12T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T18:41:19","slug":"big_media_autho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Big Media &#038; Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/columnists\/dhenninger\/?id=110005883\">Daniel Henninger on big media&#8217;s declining authority<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Authority can be a function of raw power, but among free people it is sustained by esteem and trust. Should esteem and trust falter, the public will start to contest an institution&#8217;s authority. It happens all the time to political figures. It happened here to the American Catholic Church and to the legal profession, thanks to plaintiff-bar abuse. And now the public is beginning to contest the decades-old authority of the mainstream media.<br \/>\nTwo months ago, Gallup reported that public belief in the media&#8217;s ability to report news accurately and fairly had fallen to 44%&#8211;what Gallup called a significant drop from 54% just a year ago.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Henninger on big media&#8217;s declining authority: Authority can be a function of raw power, but among free people it is sustained by esteem and trust. Should esteem and trust falter, the public will start to contest an institution&#8217;s authority. It happens all the time to political figures. It happened here to the American Catholic [&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\/716"}],"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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}