{"id":579,"date":"2008-08-08T07:53:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T12:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=579"},"modified":"2009-03-22T07:58:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T12:58:16","slug":"completely-unsurprising-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2008\/08\/08\/completely-unsurprising-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Completely unsurprising news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSome news stories that shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone:\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/world\/williams-lashes-liberal-us-bishops\/2008\/08\/04\/1217701947653.html\">Wishywashy liberal clergyman turns against his liberal principles, blames victims<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/feedarticle\/7709961\">Murderous head of state berates another nation holding a big p.r. event for their human rights record; everybody pretends this matters<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/story\/2008\/08\/08\/ST2008080800038.html\">Kangoroo court condemns supposed terrorist on dodgy charges<\/>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2511565\/Gordon-Brown-takes-up-Pilates-after-leadership-questioned.html\">Doomed prime minister does not think he&#8217;s doomed, prepares to fight back<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nThe thing they have in common that they&#8217;re all non-stories, not news but the opposite of news, almost ritualised reports where all the interesting stuff remains unspoken. You can get angry about these stories but it&#8217;s largely pointless; there was no chance that things would&#8217;ve happened differently. It&#8217;s just inherent in the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some news stories that shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone: Wishywashy liberal clergyman turns against his liberal principles, blames victims. Murderous head of state berates another nation holding a big p.r. event for their human rights record; everybody pretends this matters. Kangoroo court condemns supposed terrorist on dodgy charges. Doomed prime minister does not think he&#8217;s doomed, prepares [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manufacturing-consent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}