{"id":266,"date":"2008-02-06T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.142:8080\/2008\/02\/06\/media-gets-it-wrong-again\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T10:07:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T14:07:01","slug":"media-gets-it-wrong-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/media-gets-it-wrong-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Media gets it wrong again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m disappointed in the Associated Press.\u00a0 I read a news article today that said, &#8220;<em>A state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers.<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0 Upon reading further into the article, it clearly states that the lawmaker DIDN&#8217;T want this bill to become law (he says he&#8217;d have a tough time under this bill), but rather wanted to raise awareness of the growing epidemic that is obesity.\u00a0 The AP reporter ignored this fact later as he asked a local restaurant owner.\u00a0 Instead of asking the correct question, &#8220;Do you see obesity as a growing epidemic?&#8221;, the reporter must have asked, &#8220;How would you feel about a law to ban obese customers from restaurants?&#8221;\u00a0 Two totally different questions which portray the bill in two totally different lights.<\/p>\n<p>The poorly reported article is at the jump:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/sorry-you-re-too-fat-eat-here-flna1c9461950\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/sorry-you-re-too-fat-eat-here-flna1c9461950<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='lj-moods-meta'><b>Current Mood:<\/b> \ud83d\ude21annoyed<br\/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m disappointed in the Associated Press.\u00a0 I read a news article today that said, &#8220;A state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers.&#8221;\u00a0 Upon reading further into the article, it clearly states that the lawmaker DIDN&#8217;T want this bill to become law (he says he&#8217;d have a tough time under this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-moods","category-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}