{"id":7334,"date":"2009-08-01T13:39:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T20:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7334"},"modified":"2009-08-02T06:25:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T13:25:30","slug":"and-speaking-of-clunkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7334","title":{"rendered":"And Speaking of &#8216;Clunkers&#8217;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Kurtz at TPM <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/2009\/07\/cash_for_clunkers.php?ref=fpblg\">suggests<\/a>: &#8220;How about a program where we can turn in the old, washed-up pundits and talking heads on the cable nets for ones that spew less dangerous emissions?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, in not entirely unrelated news, Glenn Greenwald offers the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2009\/08\/01\/ge\/index.html\">proper perspective<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/01\/business\/media\/01feud.html?_r=2&#038;src=twt&#038;twt=nytimes\">today&#8217;s report<\/a> that the corporate ownership of both Fox &#8220;News&#8221; and MSNBC have interceded into their news divisions&#8217; ongoing Olbermann v. O&#8217;Reilly Wars because, while it&#8217;s been good for ratings for both of them, it&#8217;s bad for the <i>corporations<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>To build on Kurtz&#8217; notion, how about if we turn in the old, washed-up, corporatized news outlets who live large on <i>our<\/i> public airwaves and government largesse as well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Kurtz at TPM suggests: &#8220;How about a program where we can turn in the old, washed-up pundits and talking heads on the cable nets for ones that spew less dangerous emissions?&#8221; And, in not entirely unrelated news, Glenn Greenwald offers the proper perspective on today&#8217;s report that the corporate ownership of both Fox &#8220;News&#8221; [&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":[77,14,375,46,188,33,23],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-oreilly","category-fox-news","category-keith-olbermann","category-mainstream-corporate-media","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-msnbc","category-nbc","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334","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=7334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7334"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}