{"id":173,"date":"2008-10-09T16:04:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T16:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2008-10-09T16:04:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T16:04:36","slug":"the_end_of_the_alternative_med","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"The End of the Alternative Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibdeditorials.com\/IBDArticles.aspx?id=308354689539729\">Investor&#8217;s Business Daily<\/a>&nbsp;posted an editorial yesterday about the future of the alternative media (that&#8217;s what you are reading right now!) under an Obama administration.&nbsp; It lists some of the anti-free speech actions taken by the campaign to squelch opposing ideas.&nbsp; The alternative media (talk radio and the internet) have played a role in recent presidential and congressional elections, and it has not been a role appreciated by the democrat party.&nbsp; Their lives would be easier without pesky internet people checking their facts.&nbsp; (Remember the Dan Rather scandel&#8211;that was uncovered due to the blog Little Green Footballs.&nbsp; The photoshopped pictures of the Iran rocket launchings were also exposed by the internet&#8211;I think that was Little Green Footballs, also.&nbsp; The phony pictures of damage to Lebanon in the war with Israel were also exposed on the internet).&nbsp; Factcheck.org is a poliltically neutral organization, but it exposes democrat as well as republican lies.&nbsp; We need a media that reports both sides of any issue, and right now the mainstream media is not doing that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investor&#8217;s Business Daily&nbsp;posted an editorial yesterday about the future of the alternative media (that&#8217;s what you are reading right now!) under an Obama administration.&nbsp; It lists some of the anti-free speech actions taken by the campaign to squelch opposing ideas.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=173\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}