{"id":3095,"date":"2023-04-17T03:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","slug":"headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3095","title":{"rendered":"HEADLINES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This post is not a comment on the bruhaha Bud-Lite ignited recently by tying its brand to controversial transwoman Dylan Mulvaney.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not directly.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It <i><b>is <\/b><\/i>a comment on the media&#8217;s use and abuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And to what extent we should trust the media.*<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are two headlines offered up on my Google newsfeed the other day, only separated by a short scroll:<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot_20230411-065953-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"919\" height=\"917\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Screenshot_20230411-070003-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"895\" height=\"919\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Not at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is not a comment on the bruhaha Bud-Lite ignited recently by tying its brand to controversial transwoman Dylan Mulvaney. Not directly. It is a comment on the media&#8217;s use and abuse.\u00a0 And to what extent we should trust the media.* Here are two headlines offered up on my Google newsfeed the other day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3098,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions\/3098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}