{"id":656,"date":"2007-10-29T13:15:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T20:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=656"},"modified":"2007-10-29T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T20:15:49","slug":"not-much-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"Not Much Going On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I have been preoccupied with unspecified clandestine activites, not much has occurred in the world of media &#8211; unless you consider <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/10\/26\/white-house-condemns-femas-fake-presser\/\" target=\"_blank\">FEMA staging a fake press conference<\/a> with FEMA staff posing as reporter <em>&#8220;something.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And it is certainly nothing groundbreaking when <a href=\"http:\/\/bravenewfilms.org\/blog\/17264-sunday-fox-panel-is-iran-warmongerrific\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News analysts<\/a> spend their air time promoting a U.S. attack on Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I have been preoccupied with unspecified clandestine activites, not much has occurred in the world of media &#8211; unless you consider FEMA staging a fake press conference with FEMA staff posing as reporter &#8220;something.&#8221; And it is certainly nothing groundbreaking when Fox News analysts spend their air time promoting a U.S. attack on Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-aA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":659,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=659","url_meta":{"origin":656,"position":0},"title":"Jonah Goldberg&#8217;s Stench Of Humor","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/7\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"In another classic example of the wanker's prose, Jonah Goldberg has penned a column for the Los Angeles Times that proves he can't tell reality from satire. 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