{"id":83,"date":"2004-09-17T11:13:08","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2019-01-07T23:35:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T23:35:28","slug":"anyone-for-some-real-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/17\/anyone-for-some-real-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone for Some Real Issues?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from Jonathan Alter&#8217;s article in this week&#8217;s issue of Newsweek entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5972916\/site\/newsweek\/\">&#8220;The Danger of Distractions&#8221;:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But there is a second reason Bush wants to spend valuable time debating debates. It runs down the clock on discussion of important stuff, like his record in office. The debate over debates is a classic &#8216;campaign issue&#8217; as opposed to a &#8216;real issue.&#8217; Campaign issues have little to do with how a candidate would perform as president; they are manufactured by the campaigns to score points. The media, particularly cable TV (which drives so much of the agenda nowadays), make it worse by favoring hot-button stories over complex, hard-to-illustrate real problems that the next president can actually work on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the full article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5972916\/site\/newsweek\/\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from Jonathan Alter&#8217;s article in this week&#8217;s issue of Newsweek entitled &#8220;The Danger of Distractions&#8221;: &#8220;But there is a second reason Bush wants to spend valuable time debating debates. It runs down the clock on discussion of important stuff, like his record in office. The debate over debates is a classic &#8216;campaign issue&#8217; as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[105,500],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-bush","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}