{"id":33831,"date":"2021-08-01T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T01:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33831"},"modified":"2021-08-01T20:17:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T01:17:09","slug":"a-thought-for-the-cleveland-plain-dealer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/01\/a-thought-for-the-cleveland-plain-dealer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thought For The Cleveland Plain-Dealer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which is just the only Ohio newspaper that I can think of. Jennifer Rubin in <strong><em>WaPo<\/em><\/strong> has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/07\/29\/what-would-responsible-coverage-look-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series of recommendations<\/a> for news media and how they cover politics accurately, and I must admit her mention of Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) fascinated me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sixth, it is incumbent on the media to describe the demeanor of Republicans more vividly. Anyone who does not watch congressional hearings would not know that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) screams virtually nonstop and speaks at a frenetic pace. It is critical to provide an exacting description of Jordan. Put differently, reporters should stop making MAGA leaders more reasonable than they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think the <em><strong>Plain-Dealer<\/strong><\/em> should put a guy with a web cam at a hearing which includes Jordan and record him. If he&#8217;s really the nutter Rubin suggests, don&#8217;t report it &#8211; <strong>show it<\/strong>. Feed it directly to the <em><strong>Plain-Dealer<\/strong><\/em> website. Let the readers watch him being a flying nutcase.<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t get him kicked out of his seat in 2022, but it might persuade a few more voters to stop giving him a free ride. And any complaints he registers on the matter will come off as whining, which is never appealing, except to other whiners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is just the only Ohio newspaper that I can think of. Jennifer Rubin in WaPo has a series of recommendations for news media and how they cover politics accurately, and I must admit her mention of Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) fascinated me: Sixth, it is incumbent on the media \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/01\/a-thought-for-the-cleveland-plain-dealer\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33832,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33831\/revisions\/33832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}