I grew up when America was first discussing \u201cjunk food\u201d: ready-to-eat foods that were filling, and tasty, but neither nutritious nor healthy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I feel like we\u2019ve glided past the discussion of \u201cjunk news\u201d: media which leaves the audience feeling informed, and feeling good, but actually makes audiences less informed than those who consumed no media, at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are studies<\/a>. It\u2019s not subjective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We should discuss it more. The body politic can also become weak<\/a> and vulnerable<\/a> as a result of a diet of “junk news”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I grew up when America was first discussing \u201cjunk food\u201d: ready-to-eat foods that were filling, and tasty, but neither nutritious nor healthy. I feel like we\u2019ve glided past the discussion of \u201cjunk news\u201d: media which leaves the audience feeling informed, and feeling good, but actually makes audiences less informed than those who consumed no media,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6,10,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538"}],"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=8538"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8552,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions\/8552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}