{"id":3097,"date":"2009-05-11T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T09:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2009-05-13T22:01:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T21:01:31","slug":"obama-justifying-news-media-bailout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2009\/05\/obama-justifying-news-media-bailout\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: justifying a news media bailout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span>f you wondered about the US government and the <strong>news media<\/strong>, and the possibility &#8211; the hint, flicker, barest glimmer &#8211; of some kind of bailout, then listen to the last few humourless minutes of <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong>&#8216;s speech to the White House press corps (it&#8217;s from 2&#8217;50&#8221; in on the clip below). <\/p>\n<p>Is he merely playing to the gallery? Or is he providing the intellectual justification for future action? Or am I simply indulging my journalistic passion for over-interpretation?   <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ouVzworH30s&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ouVzworH30s&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wondered about the US government and the <strong>news media<\/strong>, and the possibility &#8211; the hint, flicker, barest glimmer &#8211; of some kind of bailout, then listen to the last few humourless minutes of <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong>&#8216;s speech to the White House press corps (it&#8217;s from 2&#8217;50&#8221; in on the clip below). Is he merely playing to the gallery? Or is he providing the intellectual justification for future action? Or am I simply indulging my journalistic passion for over-interpretation? <\/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-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","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=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3144,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}