{"id":4095,"date":"2010-07-19T08:51:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T16:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2019-04-09T09:32:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:32:34","slug":"quote-of-the-day-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4096\" title=\"sam1224081418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sam1224081418.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sam1224081418.gif 200w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/sam1224081418-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>&#8220;[<em>Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em> Editor <strong>Thomas<\/strong>] <strong>Mitchell<\/strong> told me Friday that I was cherry-picking stories to paint a negative picture of a paper he insisted plays it &#8216;fair and down the middle.&#8217; I asked the editor whether his reporters might be getting a mixed message \u2014 with his unusual practice of writing so pointedly for one candidate. He responded: &#8216;It&#8217;s a blog.&#8217; Maybe that meant his words didn&#8217;t count the same, seeing as they appeared only online. Is that what he meant? I tried to ask, but Mitchell had had enough. He hung up.&#8221; &#8212; <em>another demonstration of the boorish, close-minded attitude that has made Mitchell&#8217;s paper the worst major (?) metropolitan daily in the U.S<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[Las Vegas Review-Journal Editor Thomas] Mitchell told me Friday that I was cherry-picking stories to paint a negative picture of a paper he insisted plays it &#8216;fair and down the middle.&#8217; I asked the editor whether his reporters might be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-46\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23873,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/23873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}