{"id":352,"date":"2003-11-12T10:43:53","date_gmt":"2003-11-12T10:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=352"},"modified":"2015-02-03T15:43:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T23:43:21","slug":"todays-news-making-sure-only-the-most-entertaining-questions-are-asked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/11\/12\/todays-news-making-sure-only-the-most-entertaining-questions-are-asked\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s News: Making Sure Only The Most Entertaining Questions Are Asked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN, which claims to be &#8220;The Most Trusted Name In News,&#8221; <a title=\"CNN apologizes for planted question\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/business\/content\/business\/cnn\/1103\/12question.html\"> has admitted that it planted an audience question<\/a> during a recent Democratic presidential debate. As if this weren&#8217;t bad enough, the question was given to an audience member &#8220;to encourage a lighthearted moment&#8221; in the debate.<\/p>\n<p>CNN: The Most Trusted Name In News<\/p>\n<p>FOX: Fair And Balanced<\/p>\n<p>Bush: Mission Accomplished<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a fair amount of false advertising going around these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN, which claims to be &#8220;The Most Trusted Name In News,&#8221; has admitted that it planted an audience question during a recent Democratic presidential debate. As if this weren&#8217;t bad enough, the question was given to an audience member &#8220;to encourage a lighthearted moment&#8221; in the debate. CNN: The Most Trusted Name In News FOX:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/11\/12\/todays-news-making-sure-only-the-most-entertaining-questions-are-asked\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today&#8217;s News: Making Sure Only The Most Entertaining Questions Are Asked<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-journalism-blogs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-5G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}