{"id":398,"date":"2003-12-09T08:06:27","date_gmt":"2003-12-09T08:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=398"},"modified":"2003-12-09T08:06:27","modified_gmt":"2003-12-09T08:06:27","slug":"coverage-of-tv-is-lame-he-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/coverage-of-tv-is-lame-he-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Coverage of TV is lame, he says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to our multitude of sins on other fronts, <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=597&#038;ncid=763&#038;e=10&#038;u=\/nm\/20031209\/tv_nm\/television_media_dc\">it seems we don&#8217;t cover the TV business worth a damn, either. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> I guess what I&#8217;ve learned is that the media have reflexively searched for the easy answers to trends that didn&#8217;t exist. Bad news sells more than no news, to wit: Ratings are basically going down the same amount as they have for years, and television is no better or worse than it has ever been.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(If I watched more TV I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;d have a witty rejoinder to this guy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to our multitude of sins on other fronts, it seems we don&#8217;t cover the TV business worth a damn, either. I guess what I&#8217;ve learned is that the media have reflexively searched for the easy answers to trends&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/coverage-of-tv-is-lame-he-says\/\">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\/398"}],"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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}