{"id":423,"date":"2007-04-30T16:21:27","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T23:21:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-05-04T01:55:27","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T08:55:27","slug":"ideadilines-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"<i>Dead<\/i>Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Watch.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"100\"\/>News Corpse is undergoing a bit of internal enhancement, i.e. a software upgrade. Posting has been curtailed during this operation, but should resume shortly. Thanks for your patience and here are a few news nuggets to get you by.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003578021\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times Bows Out of White House Correspondents Dinner<\/a><br \/>\nAfter last weekend&#8217;s correspondents&#8217; dinner, The Times decided to end its participation in such events. But even were the dinner to vanish altogether, it remains but a yearly televised snapshot of the overall syndrome. The current White House, weakened as it is, can still establish story lines as fake as &#8216;Mission Accomplished&#8217; and get a free pass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003578109\" target=\"_blank\">Six of the Top 25 American Newspapers Lose Subs<\/a><br \/>\nOf the top 10, the Los Angeles Times is the biggest loser with a decline of 4.25%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/2020\/print?id=3061015\" target=\"_blank\">John Stossel<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turnerinfo.com\/newsitem.aspx?P=CNN&#038;CID01=3280960a-4f81-4911-a2d1-04132a734073\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Beck<\/a> As Global Warming Deniars<br \/>\nThis week will see programs by Glenn Beck on CNN Headline News and John Stossel on ABC&#8217;s 20\/20, that seek to present global warming as either a myth or inconsequential. I&#8217;m sure their advertisers at GE and Exxon will be pleased.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephaniemiller.com\/dynamicpage.php?PageId=109&#038;PageSubId=\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Miller Begins 3 Day Tryout on MSNBC<\/a><br \/>\nBe sure to watch. Then let MSNBC know that you would like to see her in that slot full-time: <a href=\"mailto:viewerservices@msnbc.com\" target=\"_blank\">Letters to MSNBC TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Corpse is undergoing a bit of internal enhancement, i.e. a software upgrade. Posting has been curtailed during this operation, but should resume shortly. Thanks for your patience and here are a few news nuggets to get you by. New York Times Bows Out of White House Correspondents Dinner After last weekend&#8217;s correspondents&#8217; dinner, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-6P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68957,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68957","url_meta":{"origin":423,"position":0},"title":"Dementia J. 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