{"id":2599,"date":"2010-03-19T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2010-03-19T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T12:47:00","slug":"great-moments-in-abundantly-obvious-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2599","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in Abundantly Obvious Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metronews.ca\/vancouver\/canada\/article\/481871--snarker-at-large\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><strong>Mike Duffy says some students \u2018brainwashed\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Senator Mike Duffy isn\u2019t backing down on his criticisms of the University of King\u2019s College and other Canadian journalism programs, saying <strong>he \u201cdared to show a little spotlight on some of the bias in the media.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, Duffy delivered a speech to local Conservatives in Amherst criticizing journalism schools for teaching critical thinking and Noam Chomksy\u2019s book Manufacturing Consent. He also said students aren\u2019t being taught to be fair and balanced.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Duffy says some students \u2018brainwashed\u2019 Senator Mike Duffy isn\u2019t backing down on his criticisms of the University of King\u2019s College and other Canadian journalism programs, saying he \u201cdared to show a little spotlight on some of the bias in the media.\u201d Last weekend, Duffy delivered a speech to local Conservatives in Amherst criticizing journalism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}