{"id":1504,"date":"2003-04-15T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-15T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2003-04-15T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-15T22:07:00","slug":"drumhead-drumroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/04\/15\/18\/07\/drumhead-drumroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Drumhead Drumroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s not just me that&#8217;s noticed a trend in reader feedback. Here&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;q=roger.ebert\">Roger Ebert<\/a> has to say about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story.html?StoryID=15642\">varieties<\/a> of his fan mail:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story.html?StoryID=15642\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s an interesting pattern going on. When I write a political column for the Chicago Sun-Times, when liberals disagree with me, they send in long, logical e-mails explaining all my errors. I hardly ever get well-reasoned articles from the right. People just tell me to shut up. That&#8217;s the message: &#8220;Shut up. Don&#8217;t write anymore about this. Who do you think you are?&#8221; &#8230; I just feel that essentially the country is in the grip of some very bad information. I think a lot of working class people don&#8217;t understand that their money is being stolen &#8230; Yet a lot of them seem to be voting conservative and thinking that the conservatives represent them. And they don&#8217;t &#8230; I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. And the parrots of talk radio are just sending out the same stuff. When I look at my e-mails, I see the same Limbaugh rhetoric; apparently, people don&#8217;t have any ideas of their own. And there&#8217;s just this drumroll of anti-progressive thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a>Earlier <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2003_04_13_WeekArchive.php#92587096\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s not just me that&#8217;s noticed a trend in reader feedback. Here&#8217;s what Roger Ebert has to say about the varieties of his fan mail: There&#8217;s an interesting pattern going on. When I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}