{"id":251,"date":"2004-10-11T16:13:54","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T06:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=251"},"modified":"2004-10-11T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2004-10-11T06:13:54","slug":"that-liberal-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/11\/that-liberal-media","title":{"rendered":"That Liberal Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, that double-entendre just keeps getting better. Anyway, a couple of days before the election, lefty blogger Robert Corr <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertcorr.net\/blog\/2004\/10\/07\/the-liberal-media\/\">noted<\/a> a Crikey mailout claiming the Age was forced to take a pro-Howard line in its editorial by their Editor-in-chief, supposedly on the basis that &#8220;backing Latham wasnt in the commercial interests of the company.&#8221; Clearly then, the media aren&#8217;t liberal at all, right?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Many staffers at 250 Spencer Street are disgusted, and rightly so. Three years ago, Fairfax took the line that Howard was a liar and a xenophobe who was whipping the public into a fear frenzy over national security. Little has changed since then, (except our Editor-in-Chief), who &#8211; it is said &#8211; was <b>alone in his decision to support the Coalition this time around<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, that double-entendre just keeps getting better. Anyway, a couple of days before the election, lefty blogger Robert Corr noted a Crikey mailout claiming the Age was forced to take a pro-Howard line in its editorial by their Editor-in-chief, supposedly on the basis that &#8220;backing Latham wasnt in the commercial interests of the company.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}