{"id":1045,"date":"2007-07-12T05:23:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T10:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2007-07-12T05:23:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T10:23:36","slug":"newspapers-reading-between-the-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Newspapers:  Reading Between The Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Signs it&#8217;s a slow news day:\u00a0 the Strib <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/587\/story\/1295569.html\">covers a inter-city feud<\/a> trumped up by comedian Mo Rocca for an upcoming &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to &#8220;Meet Minneapolis,&#8221; the plan is for Rybak to take Rocca on a bike ride and Coleman to play bagpipes in his office.<\/p>\n<p>Rybak, who often rides his bike to work, was delighted. But Coleman hasn&#8217;t played the bagpipes in a while and wasn&#8217;t sure he could pull it off, noting that both the instrument and the player need tuning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sign it&#8217;s an <em>even slower <\/em>news day:\u00a0 the Twin Cities&#8217; media&#8217;s <strong><em>Expert on Everything<\/em><\/strong>, Larry Jacobs, is quoted again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That the first major national TV news feature on the convention comes from the &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; is no surprise to Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota&#8217;s Humphrey Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Stewart and &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; started the trend, Jacobs said. &#8220;In the old days, journalists chose the news. Today it&#8217;s the comedians setting the agenda.&#8221; He said eventually the mainstream news media will catch up, and the Twin Cities will be inundated with thousands of journalists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Parents; for keen insight like that, send your kids to the Humphrey Institute.\u00a0 Prepare them for a career as DFL lobbyists.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signs it&#8217;s a slow news day:\u00a0 the Strib covers a inter-city feud trumped up by comedian Mo Rocca for an upcoming &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; bit: According to &#8220;Meet Minneapolis,&#8221; the plan is for Rybak to take Rocca on a bike ride and Coleman to play bagpipes in his office. Rybak, who often rides his bike to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}