{"id":5159,"date":"2009-07-30T08:09:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5159"},"modified":"2009-07-30T08:09:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T13:09:24","slug":"also-not-worth-the-paper-theyre-printed-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5159","title":{"rendered":"Also Not Worth the Paper They&#8217;re Printed On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Rather proposes the media should not only be in the pocket of the Obama administration but should now be digging into the pockets of the American taxpayer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessandmedia.org\/articles\/2009\/20090729145310.aspx\">As if the  relationship between the Obama Administration and the news media weren\u2019t cozy  enough already<\/a>, former \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d anchor Dan Rather is calling on  President Obama to \u201cmake recommendations\u201d for the media on how to survive the  economic downturn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The media outlets that are failing financially are failing to be <em>relevant<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the story, Rather said \u201ccorporate and political  influence\u201d on newsrooms had damaged the industry and was cause for  concern.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and a government bailout from the government will have no strings attached, right Dan?<\/p>\n<p>PS Since when did Dan Rather get his credibility back?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Rather proposes the media should not only be in the pocket of the Obama administration but should now be digging into the pockets of the American taxpayer. As if the relationship between the Obama Administration and the news media weren\u2019t cozy enough already, former \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d anchor Dan Rather is calling on President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}