{"id":1818,"date":"2022-03-18T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T22:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2022-03-20T16:56:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T02:56:35","slug":"free-press-something-is-not-right-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=1818","title":{"rendered":"Free Press: Something Is Not Right About This"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What&#8217;s up with giving &#8220;EXCLUSIVE&#8221; interviews? There is something unnerving about Public Officials getting involved in this media game. Is the media network hyping this up or is a Public Official playing favoritism?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen this &#8220;Exclusive&#8221; bit on FOX NEWS and others too. I just so happened to see this on CNN today. I generally don&#8217;t watch these networks any more. I like C-SPAN or NPR. But I&#8217;m interested in what&#8217;s happening in Ukraine so I tune in once in a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0801-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1819\" srcset=\"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0801-rotated.jpg 480w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0801-338x450.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s up with giving &#8220;EXCLUSIVE&#8221; interviews? There is something unnerving about Public Officials getting involved in this media game. Is the media network hyping this up or is a Public Official playing favoritism? I&#8217;ve seen this &#8220;Exclusive&#8221; bit on FOX NEWS and others too. I just so happened to see this on CNN today. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[408],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-free-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}