{"id":5035,"date":"2009-11-20T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/11\/20\/a-grouping-of-cable-news-mistakes\/"},"modified":"2009-11-20T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T20:29:00","slug":"a-grouping-of-cable-news-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/11\/20\/a-grouping-of-cable-news-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"A grouping of cable news &#8220;mistakes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To review.<\/p>\n<p>The staff of the Jon Stewart Show caught Sean Hannity in heading back to the &#8220;9\/12 Rally&#8221; for more impressive footage than was available for the Michelle Bachman organized &#8220;Super&#8221; Protest.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/tue-november-10-2009\/sean-hannity-uses-glenn-beck-s-protest-footage\">See here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Sean Hannity &#8220;apologized&#8221;, with one snark-laced caveat of &#8220;Thanks for watching.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/thu-november-12-2009\/sean-hannity-apologizes-to-jon\">Inevitable sketch followed<\/a>, with his teddy bear committing suicide enduring watching the Hannity program.<\/p>\n<p>There are two &#8220;Cable News&#8221; crap fests of out of context video and photographic footage worth mentioning, regarding Ms. Palin.\u00c2\u00a0 Fox News continues the inflated crowds tact of using old footage in <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/18\/fox-crowd-shot-palin\/\">showing the large crowds for Sarah Palin<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And MSNBC disgraced themselves similarly, as the current media watchdog du jour\u00c2\u00a0of the Jon Stewart Show points\u00c2\u00a0toward,\u00c2\u00a0with a discussion of\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/wed-november-18-2009\/daily-show--the-rogue-warrior\">a\u00c2\u00a0group of those obviously photoshopped Sarah Palin photographs that were swirling around last year<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(go to 2:08).<br \/>\nBut\u00c2\u00a0watching that MSNBC flub\u00c2\u00a0reminds me to point out one\u00c2\u00a0 odd reality of the &#8220;Cable News networks&#8221;:\u00c2\u00a0 as much as\u00c2\u00a0I feel compelled to knock everybody from Hannity to Chris Matthews, from O&#8217;Rielly to &#8212; yes, even Keith Olbermann &#8212; and this weird world of partisan political infotainment (the only thing I recommend on the bunch of them is Rachel Maddow) (and, just as aside,\u00c2\u00a0you know &#8212; there is more actual <strong><em>news<\/em><\/strong> going on than these partisan politics) &#8212; what is aired in the daytime is ever more insipid and\u00c2\u00a0vapid in its inside the beltway tusslings.\u00c2\u00a0 But those hours probably only exist as a bridge toward those evening (niche-audience\u00c2\u00a0approved)\u00c2\u00a0line-ups anyways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To review. The staff of the Jon Stewart Show caught Sean Hannity in heading back to the &#8220;9\/12 Rally&#8221; for more impressive footage than was available for the Michelle Bachman organized &#8220;Super&#8221; Protest.\u00c2\u00a0 See here.\u00c2\u00a0 Sean Hannity &#8220;apologized&#8221;, with one snark-laced caveat of &#8220;Thanks for watching.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Inevitable sketch followed, with his teddy bear committing suicide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}