{"id":88,"date":"2003-06-19T21:33:01","date_gmt":"2003-06-20T01:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/06\/19\/enlargening-upon-a-theme\/"},"modified":"2003-06-19T21:33:01","modified_gmt":"2003-06-20T01:33:01","slug":"enlargening-upon-a-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/06\/19\/enlargening-upon-a-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Enlargening Upon a Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a67'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were talking about Jessica Lynch&#8217;s huge media package deal with Viacom.<\/p>\n<p><b>JS<\/b>: But doesn&#8217;t that kind of blur the line between journalism and entertainment and it &mdash; belittle the importance of the news?<\/p>\n<p><b>SC<\/b>: Well, why say it belittles the importance of the news, John?  Why not say it <i>enlargens<\/i> the importance of entertainment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were talking about Jessica Lynch&#8217;s huge media package deal with Viacom. JS: But doesn&#8217;t that kind of blur the line between journalism and entertainment and it &mdash; belittle the importance of the news? SC: Well, why say it belittles the importance of the news, John? Why not say it enlargens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}