{"id":715,"date":"2005-06-03T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2005\/06\/03\/why-is-real-news-losing-ground\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:51:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:51:08","slug":"why-is-real-news-losing-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2005\/06\/03\/why-is-real-news-losing-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is &#8220;real news&#8221; losing ground?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you watch &#8220;The Daily Show with John Stewart?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you do, and it seems that a lot of people are, then you know it&#8217;s a show about the day&#8217;s events that prides itself on delivering &#8220;fake news.&#8221; Yet, more and more Americans (and I suspect Canadians as well) claim it as one of their best sources of news of the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediachannel.org\/views\/dissector\/affalert389.shtml\">This article<\/a> from MediaChannel.org takes a look at the phenomenon of fake news and what it says about the current state of journalism. It&#8217;s a good read.<\/p>\n<p>And by the way, The Daily Show is on most CTV stations at midnight, after the local news (and 11 on the Comedy Channel). Try it, you&#8217;ll like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you watch &#8220;The Daily Show with John Stewart?&#8221; If you do, and it seems that a lot of people are, then you know it&#8217;s a show about the day&#8217;s events that prides itself on delivering &#8220;fake news.&#8221; Yet, more and more Americans (and I suspect Canadians as well) claim it as one of their [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-bx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}