{"id":4969,"date":"2005-08-15T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T13:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.129.141\/~sebenen1\/archives\/4969.html"},"modified":"2005-08-15T09:20:31","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T13:20:31","slug":"high-standards-for-movies-low-standards-for-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/high-standards-for-movies-low-standards-for-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"High standards for movies, low standards for presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s movie studio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/business\/3295398\">made up critical praise<\/a> for some of its movies and used quotes from a non-existent critic in its TV ads. The Bush administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2005\/031305Z.shtml\">made up fake-news segments<\/a> featuring an actress pretending to be a reporter in its televised propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>One of the two is embarrassed and will pay $1.5 million in an out-of-court settlement to a class-action lawsuit. Can you guess which one?<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2005\/08\/15.html#a4464\">guest post at Crooks &#038; Liars<\/a> to see how we hold movie studios to a higher standard than the president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s movie studio made up critical praise for some of its movies and used quotes from a non-existent critic in its TV ads. The Bush administration made up fake-news segments featuring an actress pretending to be a reporter in its televised propaganda. One of the two is embarrassed and will pay $1.5 million in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}