{"id":219,"date":"2001-10-16T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-17T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=219"},"modified":"2001-10-16T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-17T00:45:00","slug":"sucker-punched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/10\/16\/20\/45\/sucker-punched\/","title":{"rendered":"Sucker Punched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When CBS&#8217;s Dan Rather can wonder out loud on Larry King Live, &#8220;How did we get sucker punched?&#8221;, Arnaud de Borchgrave (former CEO at United Press International) can answer <a href=\"http:\/\/atimes.com\/media\/CJ12Ce01.html\"><i>The dumbing down of the media was the slippery slope that led to the dumbing down of America<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Almost any English-language newspaper anywhere in the developing world carries more foreign news than America&#8217;s top two or three dailies combined.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nFollowing the twin victories in the Cold War and the Gulf War, editors and TV producers, in their infinite wisdom, decided that Americans don&#8217;t care about foreign news and focused instead on less expensive coverage of domestic melodramas.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When CBS&#8217;s Dan Rather can wonder out loud on Larry King Live, &#8220;How did we get sucker punched?&#8221;, Arnaud de Borchgrave (former CEO at United Press International) can answer The dumbing down of the&#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-219","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\/219","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=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}