{"id":23936,"date":"2017-04-10T08:56:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=23936"},"modified":"2017-04-10T08:56:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:56:29","slug":"why-are-comedians-the-only-people-who-can-honestly-report-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/10\/why-are-comedians-the-only-people-who-can-honestly-report-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are comedians the only people who can honestly report the news?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For example, consider the following truthful and accurate report. You won&#8217;t see mainstream media doing this.  Mainstream media would give a false &#8220;balanced&#8221; view, where the Republican attack on democracy is given the same positive spin as the Democratic attempt to save it.  Why is this?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A-4dIImaodQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For example, consider the following truthful and accurate report. You won&#8217;t see mainstream media doing this. Mainstream media would give a false &#8220;balanced&#8221; view, where the Republican attack on democracy is given the same positive spin as the Democratic attempt to save it. Why is this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6e4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}