{"id":192,"date":"2005-01-06T11:10:25","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=192"},"modified":"2005-01-07T08:17:25","modified_gmt":"2005-01-07T13:17:25","slug":"crossfired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/crossfired\/","title":{"rendered":"CrossFIRED!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/01\/06\/business\/media\/06crossfire.html\">Bye to bow-tied twits and to Crossfire as we knew and hated it. Thanks to Jon Stewart.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Klein specifically cited the criticism that the comedian Jon Stewart leveled at &#8220;Crossfire&#8221; when he was a guest on the program during the presidential campaign. Mr. Stewart said that ranting partisan political shows on cable were &#8220;hurting America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Klein said last night, &#8220;I agree wholeheartedly with Jon Stewart&#8217;s overall premise.&#8221; He said he believed that especially after the terror attacks on 9\/11, viewers are interested in information, not opinion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/01\/06\/television.carlson.reut\/index.html\">The official CNN story on the CNN story here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0410\/15\/cf.01.html\"><br \/>\nTranscript of the Jon Stewart appearance on Crossfire here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not that I ever express opinions here ;-><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bye to bow-tied twits and to Crossfire as we knew and hated it. Thanks to Jon Stewart. Mr. Klein specifically cited the criticism that the comedian Jon Stewart leveled at &#8220;Crossfire&#8221; when he was a guest on the program during the presidential campaign. Mr. Stewart said that ranting partisan political shows on cable were &#8220;hurting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","category-news-of-news","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}