{"id":1484,"date":"2008-09-27T21:39:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T20:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2008-09-27T21:39:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T20:39:49","slug":"us-presidential-debate-offers-thumb-sucking-stereotyping-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/09\/us-presidential-debate-offers-thumb-sucking-stereotyping-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"US Presidential Debate offers thumb-sucking, stereotyping opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">W<\/span>ant an impartial account of the <strong>McCain-Obama<\/strong> debate? The <strong>BBC<\/strong> offers this <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7639102.stm\">analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[McCain on Putin] I would say in America it plays much better as a tough-guy sound-bite, suggestive of a president who knows how to stand up to Moscow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Obama&#8217;s answer on Russia rambled quite a bit and veered off into a dissertation on the need to develop alternative energy sources &#8211; not his first of the night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But it felt a little bookish and laboured &#8211; you could sense which reply would play better in American living rooms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t analysis, it&#8217;s web-filler &#8211; with a little stereotyping thrown in. A case of something you could write, rather than should. Not exactly value-added reporting, unless you want to gauge a British reporter&#8217;s prejudices about what &#8216;plays&#8217; in America&#8217;s living rooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want an impartial account of the McCain-Obama debate? The BBC offers this analysis. [McCain on Putin] I would say in America it plays much better as a tough-guy sound-bite, suggestive of a president who knows how to stand up to Moscow. Mr Obama&#8217;s answer on Russia rambled quite a bit and veered off into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}