{"id":1570,"date":"2008-12-03T09:03:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T14:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2008-12-02T22:06:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T03:06:31","slug":"the-glaring-idiocy-of-political-reporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1570","title":{"rendered":"The Glaring Idiocy of Political Reporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As pointed out by a political pundit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can argue about how important a role Obama&#8217;s platform played in his victory. But, to read any newspaper in the days following the election, you&#8217;d think that Obama had to start crafting his agenda completely from scratch. &#8220;He ran on a platform to change the country and its politics,&#8221; wrote <em>Washington Post<\/em> lead political analyst Dan Balz. &#8220;Now he must begin to spell out exactly how.&#8221; <em>Now<\/em>? I thought that by the end of the campaign even blind and deaf hermits could tell you that Obama had a plan that could be found at barackobama.com\/plan. I&#8217;ve resigned myself to the fact that political reporters don&#8217;t feel compelled to familiarize themselves with the candidates&#8217; programs in detail, but they should, at minimum, be aware of their existence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/politics\/story.html?id=003f5516-1670-47de-bab6-4eb78dfd904c&amp;p=2\">Jonathan Chait at <em>The New Republic<\/em><\/a> &#8211; pointing out one of my pet peeves about the immediate post-election coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As pointed out by a political pundit: You can argue about how important a role Obama&#8217;s platform played in his victory. But, to read any newspaper in the days following the election, you&#8217;d think that Obama had to start crafting his agenda completely from scratch. &#8220;He ran on a platform to change the country and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[143,22,4,458],"tags":[649,146],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-election-2008","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-jonathan-chait","tag-the-new-republic"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-pk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}