{"id":272,"date":"2007-02-13T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2007-02-13T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T20:19:00","slug":"them-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/02\/them-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Them the media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skrenta.com\/2007\/02\/the_failure_of_we_the_media.html\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Rich Skrenta<\/b><\/a> bursts <b>Dan Gillmor<\/b>&#8216;s <i>We The Media<\/i> balloon: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is still a power law to success, and the few continue to reap disproportionate rewards, as they always have. Pub media turns out to be a farm league for big media. The bloggers who &#8220;make it&#8221; look more and more like regular media than &#8220;us&#8221;. They graduate to the A-list, and start to get lumped in and criticised along with the establishment. Success looks like a sellout to a big media company, or a good business doing job boards and conferences on the side to pay the bills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Having once been in the mainstream media, I don&#8217;t mind saying it was full of people &#8211; like us! Get over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich Skrenta bursts Dan Gillmor&#8216;s We The Media balloon: There is still a power law to success, and the few continue to reap disproportionate rewards, as they always have. Pub media turns out to be a farm league for big media. The bloggers who &#8220;make it&#8221; look more and more like regular media than &#8220;us&#8221;. [&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":[58],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-new-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","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=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}