{"id":780,"date":"2009-02-27T15:57:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T19:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2009-03-07T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T20:09:00","slug":"cognitive-dissonance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2009\/02\/cognitive-dissonance\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Dissonance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok New York Times.\u00a0 What’s going on here:<\/p>\n

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So the lead story here seems to be a pretty big deal: ‘GM Loses 9.6 Billion as Its Strugles Continue.’\u00a0 Wow right?\u00a0 That sucks!<\/p>\n

What’s the lead image?<\/p>\n

“Living Together : My Monkey, My Self<\/a>”<\/p>\n

WHAT?<\/p>\n

Have things really gotten so bad that, instead of dealing with monumentally bad news about the econmy, we feel we should give mental precedance to stories about having monkeys in the house because you’re just not a cat person?<\/p>\n

Granted, AIG’s quarterly loss of 61.7 billion obviously made GM’s loss look like chump chnge.<\/p>\n

Still.<\/p>\n

The 26th, when the story was published, was a Thursday.\u00a0 A Thursday!\u00a0 This is the kind of fluff reporting I’d expect on a Sunday!\u00a0 Were your editors all on vacation?<\/p>\n

<sigh><\/p>\n

Come on NYT.\u00a0 Stay sharp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok New York Times.\u00a0 What’s going on here: So the lead story here seems to be a pretty big deal: ‘GM Loses 9.6 Billion as Its Strugles Continue.’\u00a0 Wow right?\u00a0 That sucks! What’s the lead image? “Living Together : My Monkey, My Self” WHAT? Have things really gotten so bad that, instead of dealing with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-and-raves"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}