{"id":569,"date":"2008-08-05T21:09:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T02:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=569"},"modified":"2008-08-05T21:17:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T02:17:23","slug":"time-defends-obamas-tire-gauge-energy-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"Time Defends Obama&#8217;s Tire Gauge Energy Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It must be nice to have\u00c2\u00a0 the likes of Time and CNN running interference for your campaign. Obama doesn&#8217;t need to justify his ridiculous statements, that&#8217;s the press&#8217;s job, the impartial and independent press, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>In this story from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1829354,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-nation\" target=\"_blank\">Time<\/a> there is not a single quote from the Obama camp. It must save a lot of time when a reporter doesn&#8217;t actually have to do any reporting. Just take a position supporting your candidate and write about how his opposition is a bunch of whiners and Oil Company lackeys. No where in that piece is there any mention that it is an editorial or an opinion piece. In fact I linked to it from Yahoo under the US News category and sure enough that&#8217;s where it resides on the Time website, US news.<\/p>\n<p>Do they even have editors over at Time? Do you suppose there is any oversight at all?\u00c2\u00a0 I kind of expect a &#8220;news&#8221; story to have &#8220;facts&#8221; supported by &#8220;quotes&#8221; from &#8220;experts&#8221; or &#8220;spokesmen&#8221; or perhaps even a &#8220;candidate&#8221; or two. Apparently the Journalisim school this guy went to didn&#8217;t teach that part. Or perhaps he didnt even go to journalisim school, maybe all you need to get a job at Time is your voter registration card stamped &#8220;Democrat&#8221;. That or a letter of recomendation from Dan Rather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be nice to have\u00c2\u00a0 the likes of Time and CNN running interference for your campaign. Obama doesn&#8217;t need to justify his ridiculous statements, that&#8217;s the press&#8217;s job, the impartial and independent press, isn&#8217;t it? In this story from Time there is not a single quote from the Obama camp. It must save a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}