{"id":2567,"date":"2010-04-17T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T20:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2010-04-17T15:31:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T20:31:16","slug":"the-cuisinart-of-news-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/04\/17\/the-cuisinart-of-news-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cuisinart of News &amp; Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Bill O&#8217;Reilly got on Senator Coburn&#8217;s {R-OK} case for a quip the senator made about Fox News-style reporting and the mandatory health care imprisonment debate {Hat tip:: Linniqat}.<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/video\/video_2324.html?1271360625\" width=\"465\" height=\"395\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" style=\"border:0px;overflow: hidden\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Well, as it turns out, there was plenty of evidence of Fox News-style &#8220;reporting&#8221; that confirmed that Fox was making a big deal out of prison as a result of noncompliance. O&#8217;Reilly tried to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/04\/16\/bill-oreilly-defends-lie_n_540672.html\">spin it as reporting a news story<\/a><\/strong>, but examining the footage, the bulk, if not all, was commentary\u2014not news.<\/p>\n<p>While CNN ratings languish, Fox and MSNBC are both branding their infotainment and rely upon the blurring of news and commentary. O&#8217;Reilly and Fox like to jump between the two categories depending on what&#8217;s convenient for them, but it&#8217;s rather disingenuous and insulting to act as if that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitterversion:: <\/strong>Bill O&#8217;Reilly goes aft. Sen.4quip on FoxNews journalism.HuffPo slams Bill, who blurs news\/commentary #Fail #ThickCulture\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Prof_K\">@Prof_K<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Song:: <\/strong>Aimee Mann-&#8216;Real Bad News&#8217;<br \/>\n<object classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"250\" height=\"40\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"hostname=cowbell.grooveshark.com&amp;widgetID=20824033&amp;style=metal&amp;p=0\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/listen.grooveshark.com\/songWidget.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Bill O&#8217;Reilly got on Senator Coburn&#8217;s {R-OK} case for a quip the senator made about Fox News-style reporting and the mandatory health care imprisonment debate {Hat tip:: Linniqat}. Well, as it turns out, there was plenty of evidence of Fox News-style &#8220;reporting&#8221; that confirmed that Fox was making a big deal out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4351,4350,4349,2751,129,1169,4348],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-real-bad-news","tag-aimee-mann","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-fox-news","tag-media","tag-msnbc","tag-tom-coburn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2571,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions\/2571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}