{"id":1520,"date":"2005-07-03T00:02:28","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T00:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2005-07-03T00:02:28","modified_gmt":"2005-07-03T00:02:28","slug":"wisconsin_press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1520","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Press Gives Kohl a Pass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel McNally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/tct\/opinion\/\/index.php?ntid=45578&#038;ntpid=0\">asks some timely questions<\/a> about the mainstream media&#8217;s coverage (or lack thereof) of Senator Kohl (and Feingold, frankly):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It would be remarkable for any local sports owner to be protected by such a shield of invisibility, but it is nothing short of astounding when the owner also happens to be one of the state&#8217;s top elected officials. It&#8217;s not as if the press doesn&#8217;t know where to find the guy. He has a public office in Washington, D.C. And when he&#8217;s in Milwaukee, he eats breakfast almost every morning at Ma Fischer&#8217;s restaurant.<br \/>\nIt has to be a conscious decision on the part of reporters not to ask Kohl questions about anything he&#8217;d rather not talk about.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are actually a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/002619.php\">number of important votes<\/a> that our media should be asking both Senators about.  <\/p>\n<p>  Why do they run from these stories?  McNally raises some very interesting questions.  Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel McNally asks some timely questions about the mainstream media&#8217;s coverage (or lack thereof) of Senator Kohl (and Feingold, frankly): It would be remarkable for any local sports owner to be protected by such a shield of invisibility, but it is nothing short of astounding when the owner also happens to be one of the [&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":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520"}],"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=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}