{"id":943,"date":"2005-09-09T02:14:59","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T06:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/desperate_colum"},"modified":"2005-09-09T02:14:59","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T06:14:59","slug":"desperate_colum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Desperate columnists are asking&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newton Emerson of the Irish Times has has captured the essence of mainstream media&#8217;s descent into irrelevance. In his Sept 8 article, <em>Ill wind may not blow to the Whitehouse<\/em>, we see the politicizing of Hurricane Katrina from one Irishman&#8217;s viewpoint. <\/p>\n<p>Exceedingly funny and unfortunately too accurate to ignore, this article will become an instant Internet classic. This excerpt may give you a clue:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As the full horror of Hurricane Katrina sinks in, thousands of desperate columnists are asking if this is the end of George Bush&#8217;s presidency. The answer is almost certainly yes, provided that &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sluggerotoole.com\/archives\/2005\/09\/ill_wind_may_no.php\">more&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\" http:\/\/www.mickfealty.com\/\">Mick Fealty<\/a>&nbsp; for making this available on his blog Slugger O&#8217;Toole. <br \/>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\">Instapundit<\/a> for bringing this to our attention.<\/p>\n<p>Tag: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Journalism\">Journalism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newton Emerson of the Irish Times has has captured the essence of mainstream media&#8217;s descent into irrelevance. In his Sept 8 article, Ill wind may not blow to the Whitehouse, we see the politicizing of Hurricane Katrina from one Irishman&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=943\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1826],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-fd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}