{"id":8512,"date":"2010-02-08T09:38:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T14:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8512"},"modified":"2010-02-08T09:38:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T14:38:20","slug":"burying-the-lede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8512","title":{"rendered":"Burying The Lede"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gawker – which serves as a model and poster-child for the dumbing down of the alternative media\u00a0 – notes that Fox News sandbagged Jon Stewart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And how do they know this?<\/p>\n

Fox News has generously placed the full, unedited conversation between Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart online, so we can see precisely how unfairly and deviously Fox edited the interview in order to weaken Stewart’s case: A lot!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

News flash; opinion shows edit things to reinforce their dominant opinion.<\/p>\n

But here’s the interesting question – and perhaps the Gawker, whilst still in full dudgeon over the abuses heaped on Stewart, can be inveigled to ask this one:\u00a0 since Fox made the raw footage available, when will ABC and CBS make the full footage of the Gibson and Couric interviews with Sarah Palin available?<\/p>\n

If “Faux” can actually do the right thing, while ABC and CBS cling to the fiction of their institutional detachment on the one hand while stonewalling the truth on allegations that they did to Palin pretty much what O’Reilly seems to have done with Stewart, what does that say about the mainstream media?<\/p>\n

(Other than “nothing that hasn’t been amply proven before”, I mean).<\/p>\n

Hunch:\u00a0 If I asked a reporter, perhaps one of those talking media heads on “On The Media”, I’d expect some laborious treatise on how the “serious” media need to keep their footage secret to uphold the standards of the “profession”.\u00a0 Or something equally ripe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gawker – which serves as a model and poster-child for the dumbing down of the alternative media\u00a0 – notes that Fox News sandbagged Jon Stewart. And how do they know this? Fox News has generously placed the full, unedited conversation between Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart online, so we can see precisely how unfairly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512","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=8512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8530,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8512\/revisions\/8530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}