{"id":1011,"date":"2009-07-23T09:02:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T16:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2009-07-23T09:02:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T16:02:43","slug":"journamalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/07\/23\/journamalism\/","title":{"rendered":"journamalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should know better than to respond to a post on BoingBoing. When it veers into politics, it&#8217;s too often fluffernutter. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/07\/23\/flashback-to-1968-ro.html\">this post<\/a>, by a guest blogger, was hard to swallow:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[This 1968 Rolling Stones story denouncing the Yippies&#8217; tactics], in the middle of the Vietnam War, one year before Woodstock would prove just how wrong Rolling Stone was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The author is being glib.  It was vicious in-fighting over tactics that defined the counter-culture at just that very moment. (The SDS <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_(1960_organization)#Climax_and_split:_1968.E2.80.931969\">tore itself apart<\/a> the following summer.) <\/p>\n<p>Did Woodstock have political ramifications? <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2009\/07\/20\/couple-from-iconic-w.html\">No<\/a>. (Though maybe Altamont did.) And all of this revisionism to what end? To say Rolling Stone was once a political magazine? <\/p>\n<p>Once again, is the author living under a rock? Matt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=taibbi+goldman\">Taibbi&#8217;s piece on Goldman Sachs<\/a> is the most overtly political piece of journalism on the collapse of our economy published to date in a mass publication.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to  <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/trends?q=taibbi&#038;ctab=0&#038;geo=all&#038;date=ytd&#038;sort=0\">Google Trends<\/a> for &#8220;Taibbi&#8221; in the last 12 months. The spike in April was for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/26793903\/the_big_takeover\">his previous Rolling Stone story<\/a> on AIG and the bailout. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should know better than to respond to a post on BoingBoing. When it veers into politics, it&#8217;s too often fluffernutter. But this post, by a guest blogger, was hard to swallow: [This 1968 Rolling Stones story denouncing the Yippies&#8217; tactics], in the middle of the Vietnam War, one year before Woodstock would prove just&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}