{"id":15627,"date":"2013-12-29T10:35:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T15:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15627"},"modified":"2013-12-29T10:35:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T15:35:22","slug":"the-p-u-litzers-here-are-the-stinkiest-media-moments-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/12\/29\/the-p-u-litzers-here-are-the-stinkiest-media-moments-of-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"The P.U.-Litzers: Here Are the Stinkiest Media Moments of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Alternet<\/em> has the story <a title=\"The Alternet story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/media\/pu-litzers-here-are-stinkiest-media-moments-2013?page=0%2C0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The P.U.-Litzers: Here Are the Stinkiest Media Moments of 2013<\/strong><\/a>. I wonder if this prize will rise to the level of the <a title=\"2013 Ig Noble Prize Ceremony &amp; Lectures \" href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/2013\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ig\u00ae Nobel Prize<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give you one sample of The P.U.-Litzers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211;The Sponsors Speak Award: PBS<\/p>\n<p>The January 23 episode of PBS series Nova was a mostly upbeat report on drones and surveillance. What viewers may not have known about &#8220;Rise of the Drones&#8221; was that it was funded in part by Lockheed Martin&#8211;the giant aerospace corporation that just happens to be a major drone manufacturer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a recent purchaser of Lockheed Martin stock, I found this particularly interesting.\u00a0 Also as a reformed watcher of NOVA, this selection is interesting.\u00a0 And to think that NOVA&#8217;s funding by the Koch brothers could ever have any influence on their editorial content; how absurd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternet has the story The P.U.-Litzers: Here Are the Stinkiest Media Moments of 2013. I wonder if this prize will rise to the level of the Ig\u00ae Nobel Prize. I&#8217;ll give you one sample of The P.U.-Litzers. &#8211;The Sponsors Speak Award: PBS The January 23 episode of PBS series Nova was a mostly upbeat report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15628,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15627\/revisions\/15628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}