{"id":380,"date":"2003-12-05T07:58:30","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T07:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=380"},"modified":"2003-12-05T07:58:30","modified_gmt":"2003-12-05T07:58:30","slug":"guilty-as-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/guilty-as-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty as charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nationaljournal.com\/powers.htm\">William Powers in the National Journal:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;re a respectable media outlet doing a Jackson story, there&#8217;s a kind of purification rite you have to perform, in which you demonstrate that although you yourself are technically part of the feeding frenzy, you&#8217;re actually very much above it. After all, you&#8217;re wasting precious news hole on Michael Jackson, of all things, space that could have been filled with news that respectable folk can respect &#8212; say, Medicare reform. So some kind of face-saving measure is necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My Jackson rants, for those who missed them: <a href=\"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/archives\/000781.html\">Day 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/archives\/000786.html\">Day 2.<\/a><br \/>\n<P>Bunch more juicy Jackson links at <a href=\"http:\/\/iwantmedia.com\/\">Iwantmedia.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Powers in the National Journal: If you&#8217;re a respectable media outlet doing a Jackson story, there&#8217;s a kind of purification rite you have to perform, in which you demonstrate that although you yourself are technically part of the feeding&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/guilty-as-charged\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}