{"id":5903,"date":"2011-03-17T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T02:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5903"},"modified":"2011-03-17T21:00:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T02:00:45","slug":"how-david-broder-lost-his-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/03\/17\/how-david-broder-lost-his-way\/","title":{"rendered":"How David Broder Lost His Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline on Robert Parry&#8217;s article is <a title=\"Robert Parry's article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/2011\/031111.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>How the US Press Corps Lost Its Way<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given the media&#8217;s eulogies for David Broder, I think it appropriate to emphasize what Parry had to say about him.\u00a0 That is why I used the headline, <em>How David Broder Lost His Way<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>My editing of the subtitle of the article is &#8220;The eulogies for Washington Post columnist David Broder: an unintended commentary on what went wrong with the U.S. news media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The beginning of Parry&#8217;s indictment of Broder is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Broder personified the cult of centrism, a faith in &#8220;The System&#8221; that ignored how hollowed out its institutions had become, at least in terms of any moral or democratic values.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For many years, I have been unable to stand listening to or reading columns of David Broder.\u00a0 Robert Parry&#8217;s article is a good explanation of why I have felt this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline on Robert Parry&#8217;s article is How the US Press Corps Lost Its Way. Given the media&#8217;s eulogies for David Broder, I think it appropriate to emphasize what Parry had to say about him.\u00a0 That is why I used the headline, How David Broder Lost His Way. My editing of the subtitle of the [&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-5903","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\/5903","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=5903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5904,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions\/5904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}