{"id":779,"date":"2014-10-28T22:22:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T09:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=779"},"modified":"2014-12-13T22:33:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T09:33:04","slug":"the-news-alain-de-botton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2014\/10\/28\/the-news-alain-de-botton\/","title":{"rendered":"The News &#8212; Alain de Botton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/the-news.jpg\" alt=\"the-news\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/the-news.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/the-news-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/the-news-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/the-news-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/the-news-800x1067.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/>A thoughtful analysis of what is wrong with the mass media and how to put it right. It goes far beyond obvious ideas like  reducing the bias towards bad news. I could see some of his ideas gaining traction, in the print media at least. It seems less likely on TV &#8212; maybe in a public broadcaster. If that happened I might occasionally watch TV.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thoughtful analysis of what is wrong with the mass media and how to put it right. It goes far beyond obvious ideas like reducing the bias towards bad news. I could see some of his ideas gaining traction, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2014\/10\/28\/the-news-alain-de-botton\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[70,4,69,62],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-alain-de-botton","tag-books","tag-culture","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}