{"id":3616,"date":"2009-08-03T08:18:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T13:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2009-08-03T08:18:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T13:18:47","slug":"the-superiority-of-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3616","title":{"rendered":"The Superiority of Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/walt.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2009\/07\/30\/musings_on_a_summers_day\">Stephen Walt makes an excellent point<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can&#8217;t figure out why newspapers aren&#8217;t hiring more bloggers to write columns for them on a regular basis. <strong>I started reading blogs because the stuff I read on the web tends to be smarter, funnier, better researched, and more entertainingly written than the pablum that appears on the op-ed pages of most newspapers.<\/strong> A lot of bloggers seem to produce more material too; frankly, doing a column twice a week sounds almost leisurely compared to what some bloggers pound out. There are dull bloggers and some excellent mainstream print pundits, of course, but I&#8217;m amazed that more bloggers aren&#8217;t breaking into the so-called big-time mainstream media. Probably another good reason why newspapers are dying. [my emphasis]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine how great this blog would be with an editor to give some guidance and &#8211; you know &#8211; edit &#8211; instead of me editing drafts during my morning commute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Walt makes an excellent point: I can&#8217;t figure out why newspapers aren&#8217;t hiring more bloggers to write columns for them on a regular basis. I started reading blogs because the stuff I read on the web tends to be smarter, funnier, better researched, and more entertainingly written than the pablum that appears on the [&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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[458,7],"tags":[2113,2114,1578],"class_list":["post-3616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-opinionsphere","category-the-web","tag-bloggers","tag-newspapers","tag-stephen-walt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-Wk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616","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=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3618,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions\/3618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}