{"id":214,"date":"2009-12-02T14:07:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T19:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2009-12-02T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T19:08:08","slug":"one-more-reason-to-skip-tv-pretending-to-be-anything-other-than-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/one-more-reason-to-skip-tv-pretending-to-be-anything-other-than-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"One More Reason to Skip TV Pretending to be Anything Other Than Entertainment."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"first-letter\">N<\/span>ow, the format involves audience questions that were screened and chosen beforehand by CNBC, so guess what it ends up looking like? Various well-dressed CMU finance and economics majors asking questions like &#8220;Are unions still relevant when 50% of America doesn&#8217;t want them?&#8221; and various middle-aged mill workers, completely under dressed, asking things like &#8220;I&#8217;m a 4th generation steel worker, USW local 1337, and my mill got shut down, I&#8217;ve been out of work 15 months, and dey terk r jorbs! Can we take money from rich people and give it to me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was completely re-enforcing a stereotype that may very well be true, but it made it much more a spectacle than an actual, informative discussion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Steve Klabnik on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.steveklabnik.com\/television-is-so-fake\">his recent experience as a political television show audience member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, the format involves audience questions that were screened and chosen beforehand by CNBC, so guess what it ends up looking like? Various well-dressed CMU finance and economics majors asking questions like &#8220;Are unions still relevant when 50% of America doesn&#8217;t want them?&#8221; and various middle-aged mill workers, completely under dressed, asking things like &#8220;I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[36,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}