{"id":108848,"date":"2002-10-26T13:53:20","date_gmt":"2002-10-26T17:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108848"},"modified":"2015-10-18T22:54:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T02:54:17","slug":"oh-media-just-shut-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108848","title":{"rendered":"Oh Media. Just shut it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media is wondering why they have received so little credit for capturing the sniper. Well, let me tell you something, media: Great job in the 24\/7 hysteria-mongering coverage. Great job in speculating, and putting on &#8220;experts&#8221; who continuously told us that the sniper was an angry white male. That was awesome. I have one problem: halfway across the world there was a hostage situation which appears to have implications for all of us, and it BARELY was mentioned by you all at all. CNN&#8217;s top broadcasts were not mentioning the Chechen rebel takeover of the theater at all. I flipped from channel to channel to channel, hoping to get a teeny bit of information about what is going on in the WORLD, not just in Montgomery County&#8230;especially once the sniper was caught! Get over yourselves. The media is basically in a service industry job. Like all the other service industry jobs out there, it has a relatively thankless aspect to it. You provide a service. That&#8217;s it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media is wondering why they have received so little credit for capturing the sniper. Well, let me tell you something, media: Great job in the 24\/7 hysteria-mongering coverage. Great job in speculating, and putting on &#8220;experts&#8221; who continuously told &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108848\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108849,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108848\/revisions\/108849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}