{"id":1395,"date":"2004-05-24T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/24\/media-machine\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:26:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:26:07","slug":"media-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/24\/media-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200405210006\" target=\"_top\">some audio of Ann Coulter<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/\" target=\"_top\">MediaMatters.org<\/a> and I was struck by how everybody kept talking on top of each other so you can&#8217;t even tell what&#8217;s going on.  You get bombarded with bombasticness and somehow, at the end, feel like information has been communicated, but none has.  It&#8217;s fake news.  It&#8217;s a media machine trying to pass itself off as the news story.  &#8220;Hey, look at me!&#8221; the media says.  So I thought, what if this got layered more and more of the same stuff on top? And not having much more ranting handy as I don&#8217;t have cable, I just layered the same clip.  And I think it sounds like a machine after several layers.  How Ironic!  What do you think?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xkey.com\/~celesteh\/music\/wesleyan\/media-machine.mp3\" target=\"_top\">http:\/\/www.xkey.com\/~celesteh\/music\/wesleyan\/media-machine.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got some audio of Ann Coulter from MediaMatters.org and I was struck by how everybody kept talking on top of each other so you can&#8217;t even tell what&#8217;s going on. You get bombarded with bombasticness and somehow, at the end, feel like information has been communicated, but none has. It&#8217;s fake news. It&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/24\/media-machine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Media Machine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3646,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/3646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}