{"id":6075,"date":"2012-08-03T14:17:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T04:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2012-08-03T14:17:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T04:17:10","slug":"taking-news-limited-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2012\/08\/taking-news-limited-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking News Limited Seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Shorten has copped a bit today &#8211; (rightly or wrongly) &#8211; about what has already become known as &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/shorten-crusty-over-pie-fight-sauces-say-20120803-23jtw.html\">PieGate<\/a>&#8221;, where an alleged confrontation occurred in a shop over the availability of a meat pie.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t there, I don&#8217;t know what happened.<\/p>\n<p>But should a major news outlet &#8211; (News Limited) &#8211; be declaring the incident &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newsdotcomHQ\/status\/231237999306887169\">awesome<\/a>&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It then got even <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newsdotcomHQ\/status\/231239569910157312\">more ridiculous<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Who is tweeting this stuff?  How can one take seriously, a news agency that apparently just wants to take the piss out of the issue?<\/p>\n<p>Poor form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Shorten has copped a bit today &#8211; (rightly or wrongly) &#8211; about what has already become known as &#8220;PieGate&#8221;, where an alleged confrontation occurred in a shop over the availability of a meat pie. I wasn&#8217;t there, I don&#8217;t know what happened. But should a major news outlet &#8211; (News Limited) &#8211; be declaring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[219,379,424,425],"class_list":["post-6075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-fail","tag-newslimited","tag-piegate","tag-piepun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}