{"id":8668,"date":"2011-11-13T11:35:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T16:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=8668"},"modified":"2011-11-13T11:35:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T16:35:25","slug":"taken-to-task-a-poverty-of-news-an-embarrassment-of-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/11\/13\/taken-to-task-a-poverty-of-news-an-embarrassment-of-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Taken to Task: A Poverty of News, an Embarrassment of Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is Aaron Task in <a title=\"Yahoo! Finance Article\" href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/blogs\/daily-ticker\/taken-task-poverty-news-embarrassment-media-201849535.html#more-id\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Taken to Task: A Poverty of News, an Embarrassment of Media<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<object width=\"576\" height=\"324\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/nl\/techticker\/site\/player.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"vid=27231024&#038;browseCarouselUI=hide&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed width=\"576\" height=\"324\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/nl\/techticker\/site\/player.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"vid=27231024&#038;browseCarouselUI=hide&#038;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<blockquote><p>\nI get that poverty is a depressing topic and a change to how it&#8217;s measured is a complicated story to tell. But I&#8217;ve never had a viewer tell me they want LESS depth or more &#8216;infotainment.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bashing the press is great fun. But the fault, dear Brutus, is not entirely in our media stars or their corporate overlords.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In these difficult times, and especially on Veterans Day, it&#8217;s important for all of us to be aware of the messages we&#8217;re sending to the media in the stories we watch, share, favorite and Tweet about.<\/p>\n<p>Those among us &#8212; journalists and civilians alike &#8212; who ignore the hard realities of American life and get lost in what should be the minor distractions. You&#8217;ve been taken to task.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is Aaron Task in Taken to Task: A Poverty of News, an Embarrassment of Media. I get that poverty is a depressing topic and a change to how it&#8217;s measured is a complicated story to tell. But I&#8217;ve never had a viewer tell me they want LESS depth or more &#8216;infotainment.&#8217; &#8230; Bashing 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-8668","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\/8668","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=8668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8669,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668\/revisions\/8669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}