{"id":29812,"date":"2022-05-06T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T15:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29812"},"modified":"2022-05-06T10:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T15:15:58","slug":"of-course-i-dont-have-to-tell-friar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/06\/of-course-i-dont-have-to-tell-friar\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course, I Don&#8217;t Have To Tell Friar&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He has already read this John Kass column: <a href=\"https:\/\/johnkassnews.com\/what-would-royko-do\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">What Would Royko Do?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kass points out that today&#8217;s news media would not support Royko&#8217;s style, and I agree.<\/p>\n<p>But the media landscape has changed, too.  When Royko was working, the metropolitan daily was a big deal, giving one a chance at a mass audience.  Syndication would net a bigger national audience.  Television appearances might follow.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the printed (or written word, more to the point) landscape has fragmented.  Newspapers have faded in circulation and reach, but they&#8217;ve fired their old and grizzled and expensive columnists, replacing them with the same twenty-year-old know-nothings that write the news.  Columnists like John Kass and Steve Pokin have gone independent or work for smaller outfits now.<\/p>\n<p>So many different conditions have changed that mean we won&#8217;t see the likes of Royko, or Kass for that matter, again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has already read this John Kass column: What Would Royko Do? Kass points out that today&#8217;s news media would not support Royko&#8217;s style, and I agree. But the media landscape has changed, too. When Royko was working, the metropolitan daily was a big deal, giving one a chance at a mass audience. Syndication would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29813,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29812\/revisions\/29813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}