{"id":11141,"date":"2010-06-01T07:45:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T12:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11141"},"modified":"2010-05-31T13:40:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T18:40:37","slug":"works-and-days-%c2%bb-what-our-media-taught-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11141","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All Clear To Me Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After watching a huge national disaster on the Gulf Coast, a propensity to golf while the world falls apart, a dearth of press conferences, a slew of risible verbal faux pas, a year of ramming unpopular legislation down the peoples&#8217; throats, adopting and accelerating all of the aspects of the current War on <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Terror<\/span> Man-Caused Disaster that were considered so noxious three years ago (including every single element of the Patriot Act), and watched epic corruption up to the White House Door, I thought\u00a0 &#8220;When will our media &#8211; which was so punctual about &#8220;investigating&#8221; each of these things before 2009, get on the stick.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/victordavishanson\/what-our-media-taught-me\/?singlepage=true\">Victor Davis Hanson<\/a> says have no fear!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Somewhere around the millennium, a new style of aggressive, public-interested, and astute reporter began sermonizing in print, advising on the Internet, and lecturing us on television. At the time I mistakenly assumed that reporters were too often partisans who were creating new, almost impossible standards of probity in order to embarrass conservative opponents: they wanted Republican scandal first, news second. But now, I see that they were simply laying nonpartisan new ground rules for the Bush administration so that they could later prove their integrity and professionalism when a member of their own faith would come into the new crucible of public examination. There was never, you see, a hate-Bush media. So we will shortly see that now as they unrelentingly turn their scrutiny on Barack Obama and his legion of ethical and competency lapses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Onward and upward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After watching a huge national disaster on the Gulf Coast, a propensity to golf while the world falls apart, a dearth of press conferences, a slew of risible verbal faux pas, a year of ramming unpopular legislation down the peoples&#8217; throats, adopting and accelerating all of the aspects of the current War on Terror Man-Caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141","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=11141"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11145,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141\/revisions\/11145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}