{"id":662,"date":"2008-01-27T18:55:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T23:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=662"},"modified":"2008-01-27T18:55:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T23:55:52","slug":"the-day-hearts-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"The Day hearts USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we readers of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=urTCNmrSiu59VCokE4PXeg_3d_3d\">Day are invited to vote among several new &#8220;looks&#8221; for the Day<\/a>, each of which is a variation on the USA Today theme of less is less. Each dedicates more space on the lead pages (not sure about inside pages) to useless graphics. Needless to say, &#8220;none of the above&#8221; is not an option.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it doesn&#8217;t matter. Of late, the Day has been following the Courant&#8217;s lead in headlining fluff. Recently, for example, we were treated to a front page story about a local lad who felt compelled to realize himself by going into the trade of boxing. It is not clear why we dedicating one&#8217;s life to bashing and getting bashed merited a front page, and of course, adulatory story.<\/p>\n<p>The sad thing about all this is that there is no excuse for the trivialization of journalism at the Day. It is owned by a charitable trust. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theday.com\/theday\/aboutus.aspx\">One purpose of the trust<\/a> was to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;preserve the newspaper as, to paraphrase Bodenwein\u2019s will, a protector of the public interest and defender of the people&#8217;s rights.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we readers of the Day are invited to vote among several new &#8220;looks&#8221; for the Day, each of which is a variation on the USA Today theme of less is less. Each dedicates more space on the lead pages (not sure about inside pages) to useless graphics. Needless to say, &#8220;none of the above&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}