{"id":292,"date":"2009-01-17T03:33:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T10:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=292"},"modified":"2009-01-17T03:33:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T10:33:22","slug":"open-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/01\/17\/open-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"open letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a letter submitted to NPR&#8217;s Fresh Air re: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=99457192\">this segment<\/a> by David Bianculli:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dear Sirs,<\/p>\n<p>re: the Jan. 16, 2009 episode of Fresh Air<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bianculli angrily denounces NBC for being unwilling to support quality television citing their decision not to buy &#8220;Friday Night Lights&#8221; outright as evidence. I am not familiar with the budget for that show, is Mr. Bianculli?<\/p>\n<p>What is a matter of public record are the show&#8217;s ratings. If Mr. Bianculli has done the math that proves NBC is able to support quality television based on its ratings, I suggest he show us the work. I&#8217;m not kidding.<\/p>\n<p>In the times we are living, simply wanting good things is apparently not enough. Somehow, we must find a way to pay for them. And not everyone can afford premium cable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An ESL moment: I can&#8217;t believe I wrote &#8220;sirs&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a letter submitted to NPR&#8217;s Fresh Air re: this segment by David Bianculli: Dear Sirs, re: the Jan. 16, 2009 episode of Fresh Air Mr. Bianculli angrily denounces NBC for being unwilling to support quality television citing their decision not to buy &#8220;Friday Night Lights&#8221; outright as evidence. I am not familiar with the budget&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"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=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}