{"id":1922,"date":"2005-11-09T06:34:09","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T06:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2005-11-09T06:34:09","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T06:34:09","slug":"all_the_kings_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1922","title":{"rendered":"All the King&#8217;s Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/docprint.mhtml?i=20051121&amp;s=greider\">William Greider<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Heroic truth-tellers in the Watergate saga, the established media are now in disrepute, scandalized by unreliable &#8220;news&#8221; and over-intimate attachments to powerful court insiders. The major media stood too close to the throne, deferred too eagerly to the king&#8217;s twisted version of reality and his lust for war. The institutions of &#8220;news&#8221; failed democracy on monumental matters. In fact, the contemporary system looks a lot more like the ancien r&eacute;gime than its practitioners realize. Control is top-down and centralized. Information is shaped (and tainted) by the proximity of leading news-gatherers to the royal court and by their great distance from people and ordinary experience.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is largely why I emailed Tammy Baldwin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/003563.php\">regarding her vote against free speech<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/bayosphere.com\/blog\/dan_gillmor\/20051108\/journalism_authority_devolves\">Dan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Greider: Heroic truth-tellers in the Watergate saga, the established media are now in disrepute, scandalized by unreliable &#8220;news&#8221; and over-intimate attachments to powerful court insiders. The major media stood too close to the throne, deferred too eagerly to the king&#8217;s twisted version of reality and his lust for war. The institutions of &#8220;news&#8221; failed [&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\/1922"}],"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=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}