{"id":302,"date":"2004-08-17T09:07:30","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T16:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=302"},"modified":"2004-08-17T09:07:30","modified_gmt":"2004-08-17T16:07:30","slug":"what-media-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"What Media Bias?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Captain<\/a> links to a pair of stories<\/a> that exemplify the media’s bias:<\/p>\n

In contrast, President Bush’s reception was exceedingly underwhelming, if civil. Indeed, had Kerry received a like reception the previous day, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. But unlike Kerry, there were no repeated interruptions of Bush’s address. No sporadic chants of “Bush, Bush, Bush” from the crowd. But there was disrespectful laughter from some in the crowd when, during the question and answer session, Bush stumbled while trying to answer a question about “tribal sovereignty.” Conversely, no one laughed the previous day when Kerry flailed for an answer to a question that had stumped him. The difference was remarkable, and again affirming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Captain links to a pair of stories that exemplify the media’s bias: In contrast, President Bush’s reception was exceedingly underwhelming, if civil. Indeed, had Kerry received a like reception the previous day, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. But unlike Kerry, there were no repeated interruptions of Bush’s address. No sporadic chants of “Bush, … Continue reading “What Media Bias?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}