{"id":119,"date":"2004-03-21T16:57:52","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T16:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2004-03-21T16:57:52","modified_gmt":"2004-03-21T16:57:52","slug":"tv_news_contradiction_in_terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"TV News (contradiction in terms)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Shafer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclecticity.com\/webx?14@104.t2gWak92ojE.0@.1e6f62b3!discloc=.3c3f034d\">comments on the general substance free nature<\/a> of TV News<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Yep. &#8220;Real&#8221; news on TV died an agonizing death years ago when networks decided that next-day interviews with stars of network shows were news when they clearly weren&#8217;t. I read two newspapers and several newsy Web sites a day and never watch TV news any more. I&#8217;m a tiny minority, but it works for me.<br \/>\nBeing an informed participant in the democratic process should be worth spending some time and brain cycles, not just sitting dumb and dumfounded in front of a boob toob passively absorbing the crap the networks hand out.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/2004\/03\/21#deathOfAChronicleForetold\">Doc Searls&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Shafer comments on the general substance free nature of TV News Yep. &#8220;Real&#8221; news on TV died an agonizing death years ago when networks decided that next-day interviews with stars of network shows were news when they clearly weren&#8217;t. I read two newspapers and several newsy Web sites a day and never watch TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}