{"id":159537,"date":"2015-06-18T08:26:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T08:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=159537"},"modified":"2015-06-18T08:26:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T08:26:15","slug":"media-wont-tell-truth-media-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/media-news\/media-wont-tell-truth-media-will\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media Won&#8217;t Tell You the Truth About the Media, So I Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0If you want see everything that&#8217;s wrong with our media and how it covers elections, just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/morning-joe\/watch\/hugh-hewitt--clinton-a-dreadful-candidate-465981507760\" target=\"_blank\">check out this clip<\/a> from today&#8217;s episode of &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; on MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing, right?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing about which candidate is going to break up the big banks, nothing about how each candidate plans to deal with our trillion-dollar student loan problem, and certainly nothing about fast-track and the TPP.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, just an endless back-and-forth about &#8220;likeability,&#8221; because why talk about issues that actually matter to people when you can talk about which candidates seem nicer than the others?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the whole &#8220;who would you rather have a beer with?&#8221; thing all over again, and it&#8217;s just as meaningless.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter whether someone is &#8220;likeable&#8221; or not. What matters is whether or not they care about issues that affect real people and whether or not they&#8217;re willing to fight for those issues, regardless of what the billionaires think.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/31450-the-media-won-t-tell-you-the-truth-about-the-media-so-i-will\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0If you want see everything that&#8217;s wrong with our media and how it covers elections, just check out this clip from today&#8217;s episode of &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; on MSNBC. Amazing, right? Nothing about which candidate is going to break up the big banks, nothing about how each candidate plans to deal with our trillion-dollar student loan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-159537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-media-news","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}