{"id":3593,"date":"2008-07-29T17:41:59","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T01:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2013-05-18T19:35:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T03:35:49","slug":"minority-journalists-applaud-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3593","title":{"rendered":"Minority Journalists Applaud Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starbulletin.com\/2008\/07\/28\/news\/story05.html\">Here&#8217;s the report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When Obama walked on stage at the McCormick Center, many journalists in the audience leapt to their feet and applauded enthusiastically after being told not to do so. During a two-minute break halfway through the event, which was broadcast live on CNN, journalists ran to the stage to snap photos of Obama.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So do these minority journalists have any journalistic pretensions or are they just shills for their ethnic group?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the report: When Obama walked on stage at the McCormick Center, many journalists in the audience leapt to their feet and applauded enthusiastically after being told not to do so. During a two-minute break halfway through the event, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3593\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,20],"tags":[1657,10779,10781,10780,10053,10782],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-journalism","tag-cnn","tag-cnn-journalists","tag-mccormick-center","tag-minority-journalist","tag-minority-journalists","tag-shills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49160,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions\/49160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}