{"id":751,"date":"2010-08-30T17:20:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T21:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/?p=751"},"modified":"2010-08-30T17:20:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T21:20:59","slug":"charlie-brooker-on-american-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"charlie brooker on american media.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_long_quote\">\n<p>According to a recent poll, one in five Americans believes Barack Obama is a Muslim, even though he isn&#8217;t. A quarter of those who believe he&#8217;s a Muslim also claimed he talks about his faith too much. Americans aren&#8217;t dumb. Clearly these particular Americans have either gone insane or been seriously misled. Where are they getting their information?<\/p>\n<p>Sixty per cent said they learned it from the media. Which means it&#8217;s time for the media to give up.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, broadcasters, journalists: just give up now. Because either you&#8217;re making things worse, or no one&#8217;s paying attention anyway. May as well knock back a few Jagermeisters, unplug the autocue, and just sit there dumbly repeating whichever reality-warping meme the far right wants to go viral this week. What&#8217;s that? Obama is Gargamel and he&#8217;s killing all the Smurfs? Sod it. Whatever. Roll titles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2010\/aug\/23\/charlie-brooker-ground-zero-mosque\">guardian.co.uk<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I was reading this article ..brooker makes a hilarious point about the american media&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>  from <a href=\"http:\/\/shazbagl.com\/charlie-brooker-on-american-media\">alex chan&#8217;s posterous<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent poll, one in five Americans believes Barack Obama is a Muslim, even though he isn&#8217;t. A quarter of those who believe he&#8217;s a Muslim also claimed he talks about his faith too much. Americans aren&#8217;t dumb. Clearly these particular Americans have either gone insane or been seriously misled. Where are they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sporks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}