{"id":296902,"date":"2017-02-28T09:06:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T08:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/even-the-ads-are-political-academy-awards-follow-the-super-bowl-with-pointed-ads-attacking-president-trump\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T09:06:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T08:06:53","slug":"even-the-ads-are-political-academy-awards-follow-the-super-bowl-with-pointed-ads-attacking-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/even-the-ads-are-political-academy-awards-follow-the-super-bowl-with-pointed-ads-attacking-president-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Even the ads are political! Academy Awards follow the Super Bowl with pointed ads attacking President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4262870\/Oscars-follow-Super-Bowl-ads-Trump.html\"><strong>Daily Mail<\/strong><\/a><br \/>February 27, 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><strong>Hollywood heavyweights have garnered praise and controversy for speeches hitting out at\u00a0President Donald Trump\u00a0and his political agenda.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And ads during the\u00a0Oscars\u00a0\u2013 Hollywood\u2019s biggest night of the year \u2013 seem to follow suit with many directly or indirectly referencing today\u2019s divided political and cultural climate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Notably, the New York Times ran its first television commercial since 2010 \u2013 and its first-ever Oscars commercial \u2013 called \u2018The Truth is Hard.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The newspaper\u2019s 30-second spot features a simple white screen as a cacophonous jumble of various commentators preceding statements with \u2018the truth is\u2019\u00a0is heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The text picks out certain quotations from the noise, including \u2018The truth is our nation is more divided than ever,\u2019 \u2018the truth is the media is dishonest\u2019 and \u2018the truth is his refugee policy is a backdoor Muslim ban.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The advertisement ends with the proclamation: \u2018The truth is hard to find. The truth is hard to know. The truth is more important now than ever.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-4262870\/Oscars-follow-Super-Bowl-ads-Trump.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Monday, February 27, 2017  at  9:48 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/even-the-ads-are-political-academy-awards-follow-the-super-bowl-with-pointed-ads-attacking-president-trump.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"http:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p>        <!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n --><\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/even-the-ads-are-political-academy-awards-follow-the-super-bowl-with-pointed-ads-attacking-president-trump.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily MailFebruary 27, 2017 Hollywood heavyweights have garnered praise and controversy for speeches hitting out at\u00a0President Donald Trump\u00a0and his political agenda. And ads during the\u00a0Oscars\u00a0\u2013 Hollywood\u2019s biggest night of the year \u2013 seem to follow suit with many directly or indirectly referencing today\u2019s divided political and cultural climate. Notably, the New York Times ran its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-296902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296902","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=296902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}