{"id":359,"date":"2004-02-21T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2004-02-21T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=359"},"modified":"2004-02-21T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2004-02-21T10:00:42","slug":"press-beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Press Beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uselections2004\/story\/0,13918,1151345,00.html\">Sidney Blumenthal<\/a> asks the question I&#8217;ve been wanting answered about the Kerry infidelity story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Which interested source planted it with the rightwing internet hooligan Matt Drudge and with the conservative British newspapers that put it into wide public play?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal goes on to explain why Kerry should sue Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s <i>Sun<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline was yesterday for submissions to the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\">Guardian<\/a><\/i>&#8216;s photo-doctoring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uselections2004\/story\/0,13918,1150756,00.html\">contest<\/a>.  No news on the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Molly Ivins&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creators.com\/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=miv\">latest<\/a> is a great read about dirty tricks and the hypocrites who play them.<\/p>\n<p>This all makes great copy, certainly.  But I&#8217;m wondering when the deluge of commentary calling for Bush&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moveon.org\/censure\/\">censure<\/a> will appear.  <\/p>\n<p>Where is this &#8216;liberal press&#8217; the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/money.excite.com\/ht\/nw\/bus\/20040218\/hle_bus-n18562294.html\">conservatives<\/a>&#8216; claim exists?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sidney Blumenthal asks the question I&#8217;ve been wanting answered about the Kerry infidelity story. &#8220;Which interested source planted it with the rightwing internet hooligan Matt Drudge and with the conservative British newspapers that put it into wide public play?&#8221; Blumenthal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=359\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-5N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}