{"id":1267,"date":"2005-04-14T14:09:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T14:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2005-04-14T14:09:26","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T14:09:26","slug":"election_lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Election Lessons from the Mainstream Media&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisinfo.com\/northwestern\/news\/columns\/stories\/columns_20548756.shtml\">Stewart Rieckman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Lesson No. 2 from Election &rsquo;05: Yes, whether I like it or not, chat rooms and community Web sites will be a factor in politics and may even set the agenda. But it will <b>always be the mainstream press that will be the unbiased fact checker<\/b>. [emphasis added]<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We certainly <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22rathergate%22\">have no<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guild.com\/\">shortage<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22jason+blair%22\">fact checking<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/journalism.nyu.edu\/pubzone\/weblogs\/pressthink\/2005\/03\/21\/be_press.html\">examples<\/a> from the mainstream media. My view is that the true fact checkers are an engaged public working in combination with writers, whether internet only or from the legacy media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart Rieckman: Lesson No. 2 from Election &rsquo;05: Yes, whether I like it or not, chat rooms and community Web sites will be a factor in politics and may even set the agenda. But it will always be the mainstream press that will be the unbiased fact checker. [emphasis added] We certainly have no shortage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267"}],"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=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}