{"id":485,"date":"2004-08-16T08:17:10","date_gmt":"2004-08-16T08:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:44","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:44","slug":"pressed_duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Press-ed Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just scanning the blogs and news (note that it&#8217;s interesting that in the last year, I&#8217;ve reversed the order), and noticed an interesting thing that no one else seems to have picked up on yet.<\/p>\n<p>In the well-blogged NY Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/15\/magazine\/15QUESTIONS.html\" target=\"browser\">interview<\/a> with econometrician Ray Fair, reporter Deborah Soloman makes the following statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>But in the process you are shaping opinion. Predictions can be self-confirming, because wishy-washy voters might go with the candidate who is perceived to be more successful.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which pretty much sums up my problem with the less-than open journalism that we&#8217;re seeing these days.<br \/>\nTo be sure, to partisans on each side, it feels like their ox is the one gored. But to me, as someone with a basically Democratic bent but who hasn&#8217;t yet drunk the Kool-Aid and signed on, it sure looks like they&#8217;re shaping opinion right and left, and doing it in the interest of the Kerry\/Edwards campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Doing this, not only are they doing no favors for the polity we&#8217;re all a part of, but they&#8217;re doing Kerry and the Democrats no favors either.<\/p>\n<p>Slate&#8217;s search engine sucks, and so I can&#8217;t find the stories in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kausfiles.com\" target=\"browser\">Kaus&#8217;<\/a> archives about the overconfident Gray Davis and the way that the partisan, opinion-shaping coverage (led by the L.A. Times) of the recall election hung him out like a Chinatown duck.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m correct, the media aren&#8217;t doing Kerry any favors either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just scanning the blogs and news (note that it&#8217;s interesting that in the last year, I&#8217;ve reversed the order), and noticed an interesting thing that no one else seems to have picked up on yet. In the well-blogged NY Times interview with econometrician Ray Fair, reporter Deborah Soloman makes the following statement: But in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}