{"id":139,"date":"2004-06-11T09:05:19","date_gmt":"2004-06-11T14:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=139"},"modified":"2008-01-20T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T22:49:51","slug":"good-cause-to-tune-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/06\/11\/good-cause-to-tune-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Good cause to tune out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Parson of WUFN Albion, MI, shares:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The two leads I hear on a regular basis that I can&#8217;t stand are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> &#8220;<strong>The City Council met last night<\/strong>.&#8221; This is simple Day 1 Journalism 101 class: City Council meets regularly. It&#8217;s not news. What they did is news.<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;<strong>We first told you last week about<\/strong>&#8230;.&#8221; I don&#8217;t want to know what happened last week. I want to know what&#8217;s going on now. And I especially don&#8217;t care that you were the one who told me. Leave the puffery to your promotions department.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Parson of WUFN Albion, MI, shares: The two leads I hear on a regular basis that I can&#8217;t stand are &#8220;The City Council met last night.&#8221; This is simple Day 1 Journalism 101 class: City Council meets regularly. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/06\/11\/good-cause-to-tune-out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}