{"id":264,"date":"2004-05-24T08:13:06","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T08:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2004-05-24T08:13:06","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T08:13:06","slug":"big_media_politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Big Media &#038; Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OnPoint&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onpointradio.org\/about\/host.asp\">Tom Ashbrook<\/a> interviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onpointradio.org\/shows\/2004\/05\/20040519_a_main.asp\">NBC&#8217;s Tim Russert last Wednesday<\/a>.   I listened to a bit of this interview while running errands.<br \/>\nOne segment, stuck:  Russert described a recent Oval Office visit where the President hosted some baseball greats, and invited Russert and his son to participate.   Ashbrook correctly asked Russert if this was an example of a cozy insider relationship (I&#8217;m paraphrasing) and therefore, can one be objective in covering politicians.  Russert insisted that he of course, can&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\nThis is a great example of a major problem today: the cozy relationships between major media and the political establishment.   There&#8217;s also this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/23\/opinion\/23KENN.html?ex=1400644800&#038;en=f9d7e2a5248e6217&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">Meeting the press and surviving it<\/a>; which describes Russert&#8217;s recent interview with Colin Powell.   Powell&#8217;s press aide pulled the camera away when Russert evidently broke the interview&#8217;s ground rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OnPoint&#8217;s Tom Ashbrook interviewed NBC&#8217;s Tim Russert last Wednesday. I listened to a bit of this interview while running errands. One segment, stuck: Russert described a recent Oval Office visit where the President hosted some baseball greats, and invited Russert and his son to participate. Ashbrook correctly asked Russert if this was an example of [&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\/264"}],"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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}