{"id":4789,"date":"2012-09-09T09:11:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T15:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4789"},"modified":"2012-09-09T09:11:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T15:11:57","slug":"the-politics-of-telling-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4789","title":{"rendered":"The politics of telling the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/listeningpost\/2012\/09\/2012971379519276.html?utm_content=automate&#038;utm_campaign=Trial6&#038;utm_source=NewSocialFlow&#038;utm_term=plustweets&#038;utm_medium=MasterAccount\">AlJazeera<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Why has the mainstream US media failed to get past the rhetoric of political ads during this presidential campaign? <\/p>\n<p>Political ads rarely tell the truth and in this year&#8217;s election campaign, facts have tended to matter less. This is where mainstream media should step up.<\/p>\n<p>But so far, the US media have not shown the appetite or the stomach to get past the rhetoric and get to the truth. In this week&#8217;s News Divide, we look at the politics of telling the truth in a heated election campaign.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AlJazeera: Why has the mainstream US media failed to get past the rhetoric of political ads during this presidential campaign? Political ads rarely tell the truth and in this year&#8217;s election campaign, facts have tended to matter less. This is where mainstream media should step up. But so far, the US media have not shown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789"}],"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=4789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}