{"id":918,"date":"2003-11-25T13:36:49","date_gmt":"2003-11-25T20:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-editor-controls-the-news\/"},"modified":"2003-11-25T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2003-11-25T20:36:49","slug":"the-editor-controls-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-editor-controls-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Editor controls the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/durangoherald.com\/news\/03\/images\/news031125_4.jpg\" alt=\"Booyah!\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theolympian.com\/home\/news\/20031125\/frontpage\/158040-84413.jpg\" alt=\"Bush in front of troops\"\/><a title=\"Bush pays tribute to fallen soldiers at hard-hit Army base \/ Front Page -The Olympian\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theolympian.com\/home\/news\/20031125\/frontpage\/158040.shtml\">Bush pays tribute to fallen soldiers at hard-hit Army base<\/a> &#8211; The Olympian<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;What makes me mad the most is past presidents have gone to funerals and he hasn&#8217;t gone to any,&#8221; Lori Hartman, whose husband, Spc. Corey Hartman, is heading for Iraq in February. &#8221;It&#8217;s like he wants to turn his back and not realize what&#8217;s really going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seeking to contradict such impressions, Bush spent more of his time on the base interacting personally with soldiers and family members than delivering his public address. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I searched news.google.com for that quote. To my surprise, I found many versions of the original AP story that did NOT include that quote (17), but did include the following quote (111). So much for the &#8220;liberal&#8221; media. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If President Bush were go to every family, it would take too much of his time, and if he sees one, he has to see them all,&#8221; said Stan Cooper of Thornton, Colo.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"mjh's weBlog: Flag wrapped vs draped\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/blogs\/000142.htm\">mjh&#8217;s weBlog: Flag wrapped vs draped<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a fellow Republican, I would also offer Karl Rove some friendly political advice. &#8230; With an election approaching, presenting the picture of a president who has time for fundraisers but not for military funerals would be an egregious mistake.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apparently, Rove took John Robert&#8217;s advice. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush pays tribute to fallen soldiers at hard-hit Army base &#8211; The Olympian &#8221;What makes me mad the most is past presidents have gone to funerals and he hasn&#8217;t gone to any,&#8221; Lori Hartman, whose husband, Spc. Corey Hartman, is heading for Iraq in February. &#8221;It&#8217;s like he wants to turn his back and not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-editor-controls-the-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Editor controls the news<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}