{"id":1975,"date":"2005-11-03T14:20:16","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T18:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2005-11-03T14:20:16","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T18:20:16","slug":"we-are-the-media-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1975","title":{"rendered":"We Are &#8216;The Media&#8217; Now&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/_\/id\/8719209?pageid=rs.Politics&#038;pageregion=single4\">From <i>Rolling Stone<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Clearly, it was the wrong moment to declare war on the blogosphere. Barely a week before the <i>New York Times<\/i> went public with its baffling account of ex-star reporter Judith Miller&#8217;s unholy entanglement with vice-presidential aide &#8220;Scooter&#8221; Libby, the paper&#8217;s executive editor, Bill Keller, proclaimed that Weblogs do nothing more than &#8220;recycle and chew on the news.&#8221; Pride, as ever, goeth before the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Caught flat-footed on the CIA-leak story, the <i>Times<\/i> saw its lunch handed to it by the new blogging elite. Leading the charge were the upstart gumshoes of RawStory.com, the pundits of the Huffington Post and a rear guard of Internet editorialists, all taking the Gray Lady to task for failing to practice the very &#8220;journalism of verification&#8221; that Keller claimed set the <i>Times<\/i> apart.<\/p>\n<p>Bloggers now routinely break the major stories of the day. And their reports are getting sucked into the twenty-four-hour news cycle.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/_\/id\/8719209?pageid=rs.Politics&#038;pageregion=single4\">the full story<\/a> for several swell quotes from our friends John Byrne of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.RawStory.com\">RAW STORY<\/a> and Arianna of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.HuffingtonPost.com\">HuffPo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Rolling Stone: Clearly, it was the wrong moment to declare war on the blogosphere. Barely a week before the New York Times went public with its baffling account of ex-star reporter Judith Miller&#8217;s unholy entanglement with vice-presidential aide &#8220;Scooter&#8221; Libby, the paper&#8217;s executive editor, Bill Keller, proclaimed that Weblogs do nothing more than &#8220;recycle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}