{"id":23299,"date":"2016-11-07T12:04:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T17:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23299"},"modified":"2016-11-07T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T17:06:00","slug":"nbc-news-obligation-to-inform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/11\/07\/nbc-news-obligation-to-inform\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC News: Obligation to Inform?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is how NBC News covered the presidential candidates from other parties in the 2016 campaign.  The video seems to be messed up, but the audio seems to match what I heard.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/KPNX_20161106_233000_NBC_Nightly_News_With_Lester_Holt?start=1560&#038;end=1680\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\"><\/pre>\n<p>If NBC News seriously thought it had an obligation to inform the public, would they have produced a piece like this?  They start with and devote significant time to narrowly focused candidates.  They then minimally cover broadly focused candidates with serious platforms.  They don&#8217;t even tell you a thing about what Jill Stein stands for.  You know that NBC News cannot possibly think that a piece like this will help its audience understand the choices they have before them.<\/p>\n<p>NBC is effectively satirizing its own news show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is how NBC News covered the presidential candidates from other parties in the 2016 campaign. The video seems to be messed up, but the audio seems to match what I heard. If NBC News seriously thought it had an obligation to inform the public, would they have produced a piece like this? They start [&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-23299","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\/23299","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=23299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23301,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23299\/revisions\/23301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}