{"id":680,"date":"2002-01-16T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-16T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=680"},"modified":"2002-01-16T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-16T21:41:00","slug":"media-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/01\/16\/17\/41\/media-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davemcnally.com\/lyrics\/Ultravox\/FearInTheWesternWorld.asp\"><i>Your picture of yourself is a media myth<\/i><\/a> said Ultravox and I guess they were a little right. There&#8217;s all this guff and some definite strangeness after 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>People crying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/national\/portraits\/\">rivers of tears<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,3604,634073,00.html\">whole media industry<\/a> for all those people terribly slaughtered, yet after 100 days the US is still bombing remote Afghan villages as the civilian death toll there eclipses 9\/11 but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Archive\/Article\/0,4273,4335447,00.html\">virtually nobody cares<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dumbass morons paying for these big US flags to mount on the front of their gaz-guzzling SUVs.<\/p>\n<p>Sad kids <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/september11\/story\/0,11209,629759,00.html\">uselessly ramming<\/a> their planes into buildings.<\/p>\n<p>And most telling of all, pols insisting people are better, more loving, and more willing to fight for their country. Sadly, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailynews.yahoo.com\/htx\/ap\/20020116\/us\/attacks_myths_2.html\">not true<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your picture of yourself is a media myth said Ultravox and I guess they were a little right. There&#8217;s all this guff and some definite strangeness after 9\/11. People crying rivers of tears and&#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-680","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\/680","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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}