{"id":9924,"date":"2011-06-01T17:53:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T21:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9924"},"modified":"2011-06-01T17:53:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T21:53:35","slug":"palin-plays-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9924\/palin-plays-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Palin Plays the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2011\/05\/sarah-palin-one-nation-.html?cid=6a00d8341c630a53ef015432b02d50970c\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Malcolm<\/a> of the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> continues his excellent political commentary with an hilariously accurate take on the effect Sarah Palin\u2019s bus tour is having on the \u201clamestream\u201d media:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The media on campaigns is accustomed to being courted, even catered to with assigned airplane seats, meals, transportation to events, seats waiting, transcripts, the upcoming advance schedule, self-serving secrets confided.<\/p>\n<p>But now they want\/need Palin more than vice versa. They know the ratings when she&#8217;s on. And they know bosses love ratings. So, they follow along in the exhaust.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think I owe anything to the mainstream media,&#8221; Palin said on Fox. &#8220;I think that it would be a mistake for me to become some kind of conventional politician and doing things the way it\u2019s always been done with the media, in terms of relationships with them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times continues his excellent political commentary with an hilariously accurate take on the effect Sarah Palin\u2019s bus tour is having on the \u201clamestream\u201d media: The media on campaigns is accustomed to being courted, even catered to with assigned airplane seats, meals, transportation to events, seats waiting, transcripts, the upcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,1193,2389,365],"class_list":["post-9924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-campaign","tag-mainstream-media","tag-sarah-palin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9927,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions\/9927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}