{"id":66104,"date":"2021-08-31T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=66104"},"modified":"2021-08-30T09:36:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T13:36:37","slug":"qotd-its-not-news-its-irritainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/08\/31\/qotd-its-not-news-its-irritainment\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;It&#8217;s not news, it&#8217;s irritainment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 25px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Did you watch the news last night?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I watched [Tucker Carlson\/Rachel Maddow].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Except that&#8217;s not the news. That&#8217;s an editorial program where a person gets performatively angry about their opinion of selected bits of news so that you get angry about it along with them &#8230; righteously angry enough to sit through an hour&#8217;s worth of commercials. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not news, it&#8217;s irritainment.<\/p>\n<p>Tamara Keel, <a href=\"https:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2021\/05\/it-makes-me-so-mad.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;It makes me so mad!&#8221;, <em>View From The Porch<\/em><\/a>, 2021-05-25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Did you watch the news last night?&#8221; &#8220;Yeah, I watched [Tucker Carlson\/Rachel Maddow].&#8221; Except that&#8217;s not the news. That&#8217;s an editorial program where a person gets performatively angry about their opinion of selected bits of news so that you get angry about it along with them &#8230; righteously angry enough to sit through an hour&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":""},"categories":[28,53,41,13],"tags":[97,101],"class_list":["post-66104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-advertising","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-hcc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68021,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66104\/revisions\/68021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}