{"id":4302,"date":"2011-08-09T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T22:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2011-08-09T17:15:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T22:15:18","slug":"the-media-reporting-the-news-or-creating-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=4302","title":{"rendered":"The Media;  Reporting the News or Creating the News?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few weeks, the news media has been suggesting that if\u00a0 the US doesn&#8217;t come up with a budget, the financial agencies are going to down grade our credit rating.\u00a0 Well, guess what?\u00a0 One of the finance agencies has decided to down grade the US credit rating.<\/p>\n<p>But, since only one finance agency has felt the need to do this, I have to ask;\u00a0 Did they feel compelled to do so of their own volition or were they caving to the pressure of the news media?<\/p>\n<p>And, on top of that, the news media is suggesting that maybe interest rates will increase because of the budget issues.\u00a0 NICE!!!!!\u00a0 As if the greedy credit card companies need a reason to increase their interest rates.<\/p>\n<p>But, some how, I think\u00a0 that this little media blitz may back fire on the media.\u00a0 And, they may be the ones who get their little pink butts bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few weeks, the news media has been suggesting that if\u00a0 the US doesn&#8217;t come up with a budget, the financial agencies are going to down grade our credit rating.\u00a0 Well, guess what?\u00a0 One of the finance agencies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=4302\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-17o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4307,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions\/4307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}