{"id":396,"date":"2002-04-02T15:46:21","date_gmt":"2002-04-02T22:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/04\/beavis-and-butthead\/"},"modified":"2002-04-02T15:46:21","modified_gmt":"2002-04-02T22:46:21","slug":"beavis-and-butthead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/04\/02\/beavis-and-butthead\/","title":{"rendered":"Beavis and Butthead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; If Beavis and Butthead had a media watch column, it would look like this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/092\/living\/In_the_world_of_Web_logs_talk_is_cheap+.shtml\">In the world of Web logs, talk is cheap.<\/a> How dumb do you have to be to fall for an <a href=\"http:\/\/bearstrong.net\/warblog\/peoplesblog.html\">April Fool&#8217;s prank<\/a>? Dumb enough to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/globe\/columns\/jacoby\/Op_ed_columnist_Jacoby_suspended_for_misconduct_+.shtml\">suspend Jeff Jacoby<\/a> for writing a patriotic column; dumb enough to publish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/globe\/columns\/goodman\/\">Ellen Goodman<\/a>; dumb enough to insult <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/\">James Lileks<\/a> for writing too much. In other words, dumb as the Boston Globe, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calendarlive.com\/top\/1,1419,L-LATimes-Books-X!ArticleDetail-52202,00.html\">gracelessly insane<\/a>.<P>It turns out the little prick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vega.net\/beam.htm\">doesn&#8217;t like letters to the Editor<\/a> correcting his mistakes, for some strange reason:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We in the glamorous media business have mixed feelings about the men, women and, yes, children who write in to express their views.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beam&#8217;s whole anti-blog screed was a recycled version of this column, in fact.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; If Beavis and Butthead had a media watch column, it would look like this: In the world of Web logs, talk is cheap. How dumb do you have to be to fall for an April Fool&#8217;s prank? Dumb enough to suspend Jeff Jacoby for writing a patriotic column; dumb enough to publish Ellen Goodman; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/04\/02\/beavis-and-butthead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beavis and Butthead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-6o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}