{"id":495,"date":"2004-08-30T12:29:17","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T12:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2004-08-30T12:29:17","modified_gmt":"2004-08-30T12:29:17","slug":"eating_away_medias_credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Eating away media&#8217;s credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/chi-0408300121aug30,1,3799851.column?coll=chi-news-col\">Mary Schmich is spot on<\/a>, as she eats away: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Should the media covering the Republican National Convention attend a million-dollar party thrown by the city of New York and TimeWarner in a spectacular shopping center in Columbus Circle?<br \/>\nShould we chow down on endless free food from some of New York&#8217;s priciest restaurants?<br \/>\nShould we gobble up the free Republican National Committee Media Welcome gift booklet&#8211;the one that gives us discounts at Borders, Bose and Tumi, and complimentary espresso in the cigar lounge at Davidoff and a free traditional shave with shaving cream purchase at the Art of Shaving?<br \/>\nShould we accept freebies that on ordinary days we would understand were as forbidden as plagiarism?<br \/>\nShould we do this even though we report mockingly on the luxury partying of the political parties?<br \/>\nShould we shrug off our own conspicuous consumption, paid for by someone else, as part of doing business?<br \/>\nWell, it doesn&#8217;t matter what you think. It&#8217;s done.<br \/>\nThousands of media types, swirling free martinis and chattering up a cyclone, swarmed through the shops of the towering new TimeWarner Center Saturday night.<br \/>\nOh, look, there&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer. And some CEO of something. And that woman&#8211;isn&#8217;t she somebody?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/archives\/2004_08_30.html#007859\">This seems to be related<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\">via instapundit<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Schmich is spot on, as she eats away: Should the media covering the Republican National Convention attend a million-dollar party thrown by the city of New York and TimeWarner in a spectacular shopping center in Columbus Circle? Should we chow down on endless free food from some of New York&#8217;s priciest restaurants? Should we [&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\/495"}],"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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}