{"id":683,"date":"2014-06-20T13:20:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T20:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2014-06-20T13:20:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T20:20:15","slug":"advocacy-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; color: black; font-size: x-small;\"> Over the past 15 years, as newspaper circulation has declined,  more and more people are turning to <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Advocacy Journalism via <\/span>websites<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">, talk radio, cable TV,<\/span> and blogs to get their  news. The problem is that many of these blogs and websites are biased,  have an agenda, don\u2019t do much fact checking, aren\u2019t edited, and aren\u2019t  held accountable when they get facts <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">wrong. TV networks  like MSNBC and FOX News and talk radio talk show hosts like Rush  Limbaugh and Glenn Beck have a clearly biased agenda. Yet, many people  rely on Advocacy Journalism as their main source of news.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> Perhaps most importantly, Advocacy Journalism is polarizing our country.<\/p>\n<p>A new Pew Research Center for the People &amp; the Press poll&#8230;.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More to come<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 15 years, as newspaper circulation has declined, more and more people are turning to Advocacy Journalism via websites, talk radio, cable TV, and blogs to get their news. The problem is that many of these blogs and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/?p=683\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professorlarry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}