{"id":8099,"date":"2011-12-20T10:01:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T18:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8099"},"modified":"2020-09-27T15:27:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T23:27:27","slug":"quote-of-the-day-388","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-388\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8100\" title=\"Burnett\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Burnett-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Burnett-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Burnett-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Burnett.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8220;[<strong>Erin<\/strong>] <strong>Burnett<\/strong>, despite her youth, is a relic of a bygone age. She embodies \u201990s &#8216;market populism,&#8217; to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcfrank.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Frank<\/a>\u2019s phrase, now still surviving on our airwaves as a zombie idea. The idea of America as a mass &#8216;shareholder society&#8217; is a sick joke in a nation currently sharply divided between struggling debtors and bailed-out creditors, but the dream is popular enough among the well-off professionals in charge of our news networks that <strong>CNN<\/strong> pinned its prime-time hopes on Burnett appealing to a mass audience. (If ratings are any indication, it\u2019s not working.)&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Alex Pareene<\/strong>, ranking Burnett #2 on <strong>Salon.com<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Hack List&#8221; of biggest media windbags<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[Erin] Burnett, despite her youth, is a relic of a bygone age. She embodies \u201990s &#8216;market populism,&#8217; to use Thomas Frank\u2019s phrase, now still surviving on our airwaves as a zombie idea. The idea of America as a mass &#8216;shareholder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-388\/\">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":[14,17,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099"}],"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=8099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28045,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions\/28045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}