{"id":1602,"date":"2003-08-12T09:17:45","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T23:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/12\/fair-and-balanced\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:57:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:57:49","slug":"fair-and-balanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/12\/fair-and-balanced\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair and balanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Al Franken has a new book coming out soon: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0525947647\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right\">Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In response, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/\" title=\"Fox News\">Fox News<\/a> has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A45293-2003Aug11?language=printer\" title=\"Fox Sues Humorist Al Franken Over Slogan\">sue Al Franken<\/a> over his use of the term &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So, in order to honor this fine legal milestone, and in the company of <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_08_10_atrios_archive.html#106069927128543262\" title=\"Fair and Balanced\">many other weblogs<\/a>, this weblog&#8217;s tagline has now been changed to &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to join in the fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, in order to honor this fine legal milestone, and in the company of many other weblogs, this weblog&#8217;s tagline has now been changed to &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2040,2036],"tags":[2413],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}