{"id":911,"date":"2017-05-15T06:59:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T15:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/?p=911"},"modified":"2017-05-15T06:59:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T15:59:25","slug":"john-henry-will-not-save-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/john-henry-will-not-save-me\/","title":{"rendered":"John Henry Will Not Save Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2mp0p\" data-offset-key=\"c3uce-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c3uce-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c3uce-0-0\">The premise I found most disturbing in reading Whitehead&#8217;s &#8220;John Henry Days&#8221; was the List, the super-secret roll of press junketeers who are called on to crank out media fill.\u00a0 It still haunts me. And every time I read some crap by some little wet behind the ears twit I have to take a moment and breathe, and ponder how that kid came to that juncture in their life. I want to find fault, lots and lots of fault, in someone, anyone, for filling our bitstreams with arrant juvenile nonsense, but the entire enterprise sometimes appears as Kabuki, a media dance, richly stylized, engaged in for the purpose of exploring the cultural themes <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"15s6a-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-912\" src=\"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-15-at-7.54.43-AM-300x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-15-at-7.54.43-AM-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-15-at-7.54.43-AM-768x410.png 768w, https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-15-at-7.54.43-AM-1024x547.png 1024w, https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-15-at-7.54.43-AM.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"c3uce-0-0\">on which the dance is constructed. If only.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2mp0p\" data-offset-key=\"8vmls-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8vmls-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8vmls-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2mp0p\" data-offset-key=\"15s6a-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"15s6a-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"15s6a-0-0\">Perhaps we should not blame those who are giving the kids a chance, nor chastise them for leaving it to their consumers to differentiate content (which we consumers so often are wholly unable to do, which doesn&#8217;t not offer much in the way of counter-pressure, does it?) Mayb<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"15s6a-0-0\">e I am just suffering, as so many antique cranks do, from a surfeit of papers graded &#8211; I suppose it is possible that when you wield a red pen, all the world looks like a hackneyed essay.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2mp0p\" data-offset-key=\"ele3f-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ele3f-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ele3f-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"2mp0p\" data-offset-key=\"593na-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"593na-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"593na-0-0\">And why blame the kids, when we have &#8220;senior correspondents&#8221; and &#8220;seasoned experts&#8221; who are incorrigible in their myopic provincialism, grotesque in their wild posturing, and intemperate in their broken prose.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The premise I found most disturbing in reading Whitehead&#8217;s &#8220;John Henry Days&#8221; was the List, the super-secret roll of press junketeers who are called on to crank out media fill.\u00a0 It still haunts me. And every time I read some crap by some little wet behind the ears twit I have to take a moment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marc-grober","category-politics","category-social-welfare","category-the-arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}