{"id":2788,"date":"2004-10-18T10:56:13","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T15:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2788.html"},"modified":"2004-10-18T10:56:13","modified_gmt":"2004-10-18T15:56:13","slug":"the-media-has-its-priorities-are-they-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-media-has-its-priorities-are-they-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"The media has its priorities; are they yours?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words devoted to the Mary Cheney &#8220;story&#8221; in the Washington Post over the past three days: 1,099<\/p>\n<p>Words devoted in the Washington Post over the past three days to the fact that the president&#8217;s top political aide testified before a federal grand jury on Friday as part of an ongoing criminal investigation of the Bush White House: 438<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times&#8217; ratio was even worse. The manufactured Mary Cheney flap has generated 3,074 words since Saturday (from two news items and two op-eds) in the paper of record; Rove&#8217;s testimony&#8217;s received 813 words. <\/p>\n<p>Meet the Press, meanwhile, devoted 1,055 words to Mary Cheney yesterday; Rove&#8217;s grand jury testimony wasn&#8217;t mentioned at all.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post even polled on the Mary Cheney &#8220;story&#8221; on Friday (64% said Kerry&#8217;s comment was &#8220;inappropriate&#8221;). There were no questions in the poll about the ongoing criminal investigation of the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words devoted to the Mary Cheney &#8220;story&#8221; in the Washington Post over the past three days: 1,099 Words devoted in the Washington Post over the past three days to the fact that the president&#8217;s top political aide testified before a federal grand jury on Friday as part of an ongoing criminal investigation of the Bush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}