{"id":313,"date":"2009-08-14T18:14:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T01:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/letterstofamouspeople\/?p=90"},"modified":"2009-08-14T18:14:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T01:14:06","slug":"dear-cnn-and-other-24-hour-news-outlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/dear-cnn-and-other-24-hour-news-outlets\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear CNN and other 24-hour news outlets,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that it&#8217;s hard to find new things to talk about all day every day, but I believe you are letting down the public by only showing loud town hall meetings about healthcare held by Democratic members of Congress. How come you haven&#8217;t shown any Republican town hall meetings? If there aren&#8217;t any there, then isn&#8217;t that worth mentioning? And since you are, for the most part, pointing out the misconceptions and outright lies about health reform that are floating around, I wonder why no one has thought to ask any Republican senator or representative why they are not standing up and saying that no, there are no death panels.<\/p>\n<p>The job of a good journalist isn&#8217;t just to tell you what is, but to say what isn&#8217;t and to ask why and why not. Do your job.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that it&#8217;s hard to find new things to talk about all day every day, but I believe you are letting down the public by only showing loud town hall meetings about healthcare held by Democratic members of Congress. How come you haven&#8217;t shown any Republican town hall meetings? If there aren&#8217;t any there,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[248,281],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-mistakes","tag-cnn","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}