{"id":2477,"date":"2008-04-23T05:05:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T10:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2008-04-23T05:05:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T10:05:29","slug":"whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-media-part-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2477","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Afraid Of the Big, Bad Media, Part VI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Michele Bachmann\u00a0 &#8211; representative from a mostly-conservative, mostly rural district &#8211; limits her appearances to conservative and Christian media, freezing out the traditional media and their anti-conservative hatchet-jobbery, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2301\">Minnesota Monitor furrows its brow<\/a> and makes concerned-yet-snarky noises.<\/p>\n<p>Uh-oh &#8211; now <a href=\"http:\/\/jayreding.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/22\/put-down-the-waffle-and-meet-the-press\/\">Barack Obama has abandoned all non-liberal-suckup media<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TalkLeft has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkleft.com\/story\/2008\/4\/22\/0143\/90714\" target=\"_blank\">some interesting criticisms about how Barack Obama is handling the press<\/a>. Obama hasn\u2019t held a press conference in 10 days, has limited his appearance to friendly outlets like <cite>The Daily Show<\/cite>, and snapped at a reporter who gave him a foreign-policy question at a Pennsylvania diner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care about the waffle &#8220;incident&#8221; so much &#8211; let the poor fella eat!\u00a0 But he wants to be the President after exposing his ideas to nothing more challenging than John Stewart, who wore knee pads to the interview?<\/p>\n<p>Furrow your brows, MinMon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Furrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Michele Bachmann\u00a0 &#8211; representative from a mostly-conservative, mostly rural district &#8211; limits her appearances to conservative and Christian media, freezing out the traditional media and their anti-conservative hatchet-jobbery, the Minnesota Monitor furrows its brow and makes concerned-yet-snarky noises. Uh-oh &#8211; now Barack Obama has abandoned all non-liberal-suckup media! TalkLeft has some interesting criticisms about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-campaign-08","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","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=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}