{"id":93,"date":"2005-06-21T14:26:05","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T21:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2007-09-16T15:12:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T22:12:05","slug":"the-dumbing-down-of-virtually-everything-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"The Dumbing Down of Virtually Everything (Part III)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/theblog\/archive\/arianna-huffington\/just-say-noruba_2928.html\">fascinating statistics<\/a>, compiled by Arianna Huffington at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/theblog\/\">The Huffington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here are the number of news segments that mention these stories: (from a search of the main news networks&#8217; transcripts from May 1-June 20).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ABC News:\n<ul>\n<li>Downing Street Memo: 0 segments<\/li>\n<li>Natalee Holloway: 42 segments<\/li>\n<li>Michael Jackson: 121 segments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>CBS News:\n<ul>\n<li>Downing Street Memo: 0 segments<\/li>\n<li>Natalee Holloway: 70 segments<\/li>\n<li>Michael Jackson: 235 segments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>NBC News:\n<ul>\n<li>Downing Street Memo: 6 segments<\/li>\n<li>Natalee Holloway: 62 segments<\/li>\n<li>Michael Jackson 109 segments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>CNN:\n<ul>\n<li>Downing Street Memo: 30 segments<\/li>\n<li>Natalee Holloway: 294 segments<\/li>\n<li>Michael Jackson: 633 segments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fox News:\n<ul>\n<li>Downing Street Memo: 10 segments<\/li>\n<li>Natalee Holloway: 148 segments<\/li>\n<li>Michael Jackson: 286 segments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>MSNBC:\n<ul>\n<li>Downing Street Memo: 10 segments<\/li>\n<li>Natalee Holloway: 30 segments<\/li>\n<li>Michael Jackson: 106 segments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See? <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=50\">It&#8217;s not just my imagination<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, in case you just arrived from a remote galaxy, here are some links you can use to brush up on the news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2087-1593607,00.html\">Downing Street Memo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?biw=1024&amp;hl=en&amp;q=Natalee+Holloway&amp;btnG=Google+Search\">Natalee Holloway<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;lr=&amp;safe=off&amp;biw=1024&amp;q=michael+jackson+jokes&amp;btnG=Search\">Michael Jackson<\/a> <em>(actually, if you have to ask who he is, you probably don&#8217;t need to know)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Credit where credit&#8217;s due: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2005_06_19_digbysblog_archive.html#111931507677996757\">Hullabaloo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some fascinating statistics, compiled by Arianna Huffington at The Huffington Post: Here are the number of news segments that mention these stories: (from a search of the main news networks&#8217; transcripts from May 1-June 20). ABC News: Downing Street Memo: 0 segments Natalee Holloway: 42 segments Michael Jackson: 121 segments CBS News: Downing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-events","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}