{"id":544,"date":"2005-04-06T13:45:39","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T18:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/04\/06\/vote-for-media-bigwig-hall-of-shame\/"},"modified":"2005-04-06T15:55:36","modified_gmt":"2005-04-06T20:55:36","slug":"vote-for-media-bigwig-hall-of-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/04\/vote-for-media-bigwig-hall-of-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for Media Bigwig Hall of Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepress.net\/hallofshame\/\">Big Media Hall of Shame<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow, that was a tough choice! I voted Lowry Mays finally &#8211; but it was really pretty much a toss-up. Go vote! The Hall of Shame &#8220;winner&#8221; will be announced on May 14 at a special awards ceremony at the National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis &#8211; you can win a trip to attend when you vote.<\/p>\n<p>Join me at the Big Media Hall of Shame to vote for the one person who has done his utmost to make the media the abomination it is today. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepress.net\/hallofshame\">www.freepress.net\/hallofshame<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Choices:<br \/>\nMichael Powell &#8211; Former Chairman, FCC<\/p>\n<p>Ed Rendell &#8211; Governor, Pennsylvania, Verizon&#8217;s puppet<\/p>\n<p>David Smith &#8211; Chairman and CEO, Sinclair Broadcast Group<\/p>\n<p>Rupert Murdoch &#8211; Chairman and CEO, News Corporation<\/p>\n<p>Lowry Mays &#8211; Chairman, Clear Channel Communications<\/p>\n<p>Your Nominee<br \/>\nThe write-in candidate with the most nominations will fill the final mystery frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Media Hall of Shame Wow, that was a tough choice! I voted Lowry Mays finally &#8211; but it was really pretty much a toss-up. Go vote! The Hall of Shame &#8220;winner&#8221; will be announced on May 14 at a special awards ceremony at the National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis &#8211; you can win a trip to attend when you vote. Join me at the Big Media Hall of Shame to vote for the one person who&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/04\/vote-for-media-bigwig-hall-of-shame\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}