{"id":4333,"date":"2008-07-14T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T19:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2019-12-23T09:59:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:59:12","slug":"this-is-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/07\/14\/this-is-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Journalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/luYvuRoSzTs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/luYvuRoSzTs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll freely admit that, while geeky, I&#8217;m not one who will stand in line for hours for an item I can get faster and easier if I wait a few days. I&#8217;m less concerned with &#8220;firsties&#8221; than with my own convenience.<\/p>\n<p>That said &#8212; I <em>love<\/em> the fact that the customer in this video actually calls the reporter on his idiotic &#8220;reporting.&#8221; I wish more people would do this &#8212; perhaps we&#8217;d actually get a bit more news in the news, instead of mindless fluff.<\/p>\n<p>Probably not. But perhaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll freely admit that, while geeky, I&#8217;m not one who will stand in line for hours for an item I can get faster and easier if I wait a few days. I&#8217;m less concerned with &#8216;firsties&#8217; than with my own convenience. That said &#8212; I _love_ the fact that the customer in this video actually calls the reporter on his idiotic &#8216;reporting.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[118,6,65,8,234],"class_list":["post-4333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-apple","tag-humor","tag-technology","tag-television","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}