{"id":3849,"date":"2007-09-05T18:42:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T01:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/05\/eric-boehlert\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T00:00:38","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T07:00:38","slug":"eric-boehlert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/05\/eric-boehlert\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Boehlert"},"content":{"rendered":"[audio:http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/radio\/07_09_05_boehlert.mp3]\n<p>Eric Boehlert, senior fellow at <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/columns\/200709050002\">Media Matters for America<\/a> and author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lapdogs-Press-Rolled-Over-Bush\/dp\/0743289315\/antiwarbookstore\"><em>Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush<\/em><\/a>, discusses the American TV and print media&#8217;s abandonment of the Iraq war story despite the fact that it remains the topic Americans are most interested in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/radio\/07_09_05_boehlert.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (32:10)<\/p>\n<p>A  senior fellow at Media Matters for America,  and a former senior writer for  <em>Salon<\/em>, Boehlert&#8217;s first book, &#8220;<em>Lapdogs: How The Press Rolled Over for Bush<\/em>,&#8221; was published in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American TV and Print Give Up Covering the War<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}