{"id":1296,"date":"2005-04-23T15:16:10","date_gmt":"2005-04-23T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2005-04-23T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2005-04-23T15:16:10","slug":"weinberger_dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Weinberger Dumps a Mainstream Media TV Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/mtarchive\/003925.html\">David Weinberger<\/a> (activist blogger):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It&#8217;s an interesting experience: You get to hone a topic to 90 seconds, memorize it, and talk into a camera in an isolated room. Plus, they send a limo for you. (It&#8217;s possible they pay, but I forgot to ask.) They&#8217;re nice people and were happy with the two pieces I did for them. But&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They want reports on what moderate left and right wing bloggers &mdash; &#8220;Nothing out of the mainstream,&#8221; the producer told me yesterday &mdash; say about a &#8220;major&#8221; topic. What the hell does that have to do with blogging? And when two of the producers yesterday independently suggested that I report on the blogosphere&#8217;s reaction to a Vietnam veteran spitting on Jane Fonda, I blurted out &mdash; because the flu had lowered my normal Walls of Timidity &mdash; that this wasn&#8217;t a job I&#8217;m comfortable with.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Weinberger (activist blogger): It&#8217;s an interesting experience: You get to hone a topic to 90 seconds, memorize it, and talk into a camera in an isolated room. Plus, they send a limo for you. (It&#8217;s possible they pay, but I forgot to ask.) They&#8217;re nice people and were happy with the two pieces I [&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\/1296"}],"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=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}