{"id":11684,"date":"2010-03-30T19:02:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T02:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11684"},"modified":"2010-03-30T19:15:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T02:15:33","slug":"sequim-real-estate-blogger-dumbs-down-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11684\/sequim-real-estate-blogger-dumbs-down-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequim Real Estate Blogger Dumbs Down America"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a serial blogger and an Internet aficionado, but I had to read a book in print (yes they still make them) to learn that I am a member of an evil clan of bloggers who are dumbing down America.\u00a0 In fact, according to this book, all who blog on this site are guilty of dumbing down American.\u00a0 More than that, after reading only the Preface to the book, I began to realize that bloggers (that would be me) are responsible for the destruction of America, since America’s great structure of freedom is built upon the foundation of a free press of objective and independent journalists.\u00a0 Since learning this from on high via the great journalists Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols in their authoritative work, The Death and Life of American Journalism<\/em>, I commenced a concerted effort to reconcile myself to the sacred truths of journalism.<\/p>\n

While prostrated in prayer on my knees encircled by burning candles late one evening, I fell asleep during my meditation and managed to bruise my elbow in the fall.\u00a0 Fortunately, my elbow didn’t hurt, since I had also burned myself on the open flames of several candles and that hurt worse than the elbow.\u00a0 The burns from the flames, however, were relatively minor in comparison to the greater discomfort from the hot wax that splashed all over my neck and face.\u00a0 Since then, I have begun to consider the possibility that McChesney and Nichols may be incorrect.<\/p>\n

I went back to their book.\u00a0 Here are two true professional journalists with resumes longer than my life, writers for major newspapers, professors of the world, and experience that made my head spin, so who am I to question their wisdom and penultimate conclusions.\u00a0 (Sorry, I just like to use the word “penultimate.”)\u00a0 Here is how these objective journalists started their book.<\/p>\n

In each of the first three paragraphs of the first page of the Preface, they praise President Obama for various things.\u00a0 One gets the idea that they believe he is not only the savior of the world (little “s”) but the savior of journalism.\u00a0 Yet was it Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a serial blogger and an Internet aficionado, but I had to read a book in print (yes they still make them) to learn that I am a member of an evil clan of bloggers who are dumbing down America.\u00a0 In fact, according to this book, all who blog on this site are guilty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":[3],"tags":[467],"class_list":{"0":"post-11684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"tag-sequim-real-estate-blogger","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3630,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3630\/ironically-ironman-is-just-a-man\/","url_meta":{"origin":11684,"position":0},"title":"Ironically, Ironman is Just a Man","author":"Chuck Marunde","date":"July 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I love the word Irony.\u00a0 Maybe its because Ironman has been my favorite song forever.\u00a0 Or maybe it's because I thoroughly enjoyed the movie Ironman.\u00a0 Oh, wait.\u00a0 That just takes us back to the song Ironman, which is the theme song of the movie.\u00a0 No, I know why I love\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Real Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1757,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1757\/in-search-of-excellence\/","url_meta":{"origin":11684,"position":1},"title":"In Search of Excellence","author":"Jeff Kempe","date":"August 6, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"That, of course, was the name of a best-selling management book that came out in the early eighties. 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