{"id":4654,"date":"2016-02-15T11:39:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T16:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4654"},"modified":"2016-03-04T13:02:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T18:02:50","slug":"media-corrupt-roots-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4654","title":{"rendered":"A MEDIA CORRUPT TO THE ROOTS OF ITS HAIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Boehlert at Media Matters for America <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/15\/as-obama-moves-to-replace-scalia-the-press-enab\/208599\">chronicles<\/a> the way &#8220;the Beltway press almost immediately began to seamlessly frame the unfolding debate about the Supreme Court Justice&#8217;s replacement along the contours of Republican talking points. To do so, the press continued its habit of <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/07\/obstruction-and-how-the-press-helped-punch-the\/201494\">looking away<\/a> from the GOP&#8217;s stunning record of institutional <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/17\/2014s-final-act-of-republican-obstruction-and-h\/201918\">obstructionism<\/a> since 2009.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boehlert reminds us that &#8220;Today&#8217;s Republican Party is acting in a way that defies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2014\/08\/yes-republicans-really-are-unprecedented-their-obstructionism\">all historic norms<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Boehlert at Media Matters for America chronicles the way &#8220;the Beltway press almost immediately began to seamlessly frame the unfolding debate about the Supreme Court Justice&#8217;s replacement along the contours of Republican talking points. To do so, the press &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4654\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4703,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions\/4703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}