{"id":70201,"date":"2019-03-10T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70201"},"modified":"2024-04-22T16:10:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T21:10:19","slug":"unthinkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70201","title":{"rendered":"Unthinkable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SCENE:\u00a0 A busy office at a major news network.\u00a0 \u00a0Ira KATZ and Melyssa HOOPERMAN-BELL, two senior network executives, are discussing an upcoming newscast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>KATZ:\u00a0 \u00a0OK.\u00a0 So we&#8217;ve got this piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/story\/jane-mayer-revolving-door-between-fox-news-and-white-house-seg\">the revolving door between Fox News and the Trump White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>HOOPERMAN-BELL:\u00a0 \u00a0Excellent.\u00a0 I hate Trump.<\/p>\n<p>KATZ:\u00a0 Everyone hates Trump.<\/p>\n<p>HOOPERMAN-BELL:\u00a0 And this connection between them and Fox News is a threat to democracy.<\/p>\n<p>KATZ:\u00a0 Unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>HOOPERMAN-BELL:\u00a0 Who should do it?<\/p>\n<p>KATZ:\u00a0 Stephanopoulos.<\/p>\n<p>HOOPERMAN-BELL:\u00a0 Definitely Stephanopoulos.<\/p>\n<p><em>And SCENE.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/19113455\/ns\/politics\/t\/list-journalists-who-wrote-political-checks\/#.XIZMjxNKhTY\">Always, forever SCENE<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE:\u00a0 A busy office at a major news network.\u00a0 \u00a0Ira KATZ and Melyssa HOOPERMAN-BELL, two senior network executives, are discussing an upcoming newscast. KATZ:\u00a0 \u00a0OK.\u00a0 So we&#8217;ve got this piece on the revolving door between Fox News and the Trump White House. HOOPERMAN-BELL:\u00a0 \u00a0Excellent.\u00a0 I hate Trump. KATZ:\u00a0 Everyone hates Trump. HOOPERMAN-BELL:\u00a0 And this connection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70201","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=70201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70212,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70201\/revisions\/70212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}