{"id":41689,"date":"2013-01-30T11:38:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T18:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=41689"},"modified":"2014-12-30T02:48:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T09:48:33","slug":"most-news-media-offer-you-the-equivalent-of-fast-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/01\/most-news-media-offer-you-the-equivalent-of-fast-food.html","title":{"rendered":"Most News Media Offer You the Equivalent of Fast Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>It\u2019s news that\u2019s whipped up and slapped on a plate quickly for you to consume swiftly and uncritically.  The great thing about the NY Times is that it offers you finely *aged* news, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2013\/01\/all-of-a-sudden-the-new-york-times-notices-the-hhs-mandate-lawsuits.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Times recent leisurely discovery<\/a> that there are lawsuits\u2013rather a lot of them actually\u2013against the HHS mandate and that things haven\u2019t been going swimmingly for the God King.  Rubbing its eyes, the Times even begins to notice that the Mandate could present some sort of basic challenge to the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the kind of johnny on the spot reportage that continue to distinguish the Grey Lady from the rest of the pack.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s news that\u2019s whipped up and slapped on a plate quickly for you to consume swiftly and uncritically. The great thing about the NY Times is that it offers you finely *aged* news, such as the Times recent leisurely discovery that there are lawsuits\u2013rather a lot of them actually\u2013against the HHS mandate and that things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,9],"class_list":["post-41689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-purveyors-of-beer-and-shampoo","tag-stop-the-hhs-mandate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Most News Media Offer You the Equivalent of Fast Food<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s news that&#039;s whipped up and slapped on a plate quickly for you to consume swiftly and uncritically. 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