{"id":108,"date":"2006-10-23T05:20:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T12:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2007-01-04T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T17:55:44","slug":"off-on-a-sine-over-cosine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/23\/off-on-a-sine-over-cosine\/","title":{"rendered":"Off on a sine-over-cosine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another reader letter in the <em>Gainesville Sun<\/em> today referenced the &#8220;conservative-controlled media&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Gainesville Sun<\/em>?  Conservative?  I hardly think so.  I worked there for a number of years, and come election time we tended to cluster around the few televisions in partisan groups.  (I was a Perot supporter; we didn&#8217;t have our own TV but the conservatives allowed us to share.)<\/p>\n<p>The liberal crowd around the information udder was always <strong>much<\/strong> bigger (and more smug) than the conservative one.  <\/p>\n<p>Not convinced?  Let&#8217;s take a quick look at today&#8217;s banner.  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>If GOP loses, what&#8217;s ahead?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Congress up for grabs on Nov. 7<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>White House&#8217;s agenda faltering<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Who&#8217;s been talking about the GOP losing?  This is a nice piece of work.   Subtle.  It brings up an unlikely eventuality and makes it a possibility in people&#8217;s minds.<\/p>\n<p>This illustrates my point: this headline isn&#8217;t the product of a &#8220;conservative-controlled media&#8221;.  If it were, it would probably give more useful information:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>If GOP loses, what&#8217;s ahead?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Lowest airfares to Canada<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>How to build your own gas mask<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On a totally unrelated topic: can an engine sing?  I could swear I heard the Beemer this morning  singing, in a thick Bavarian accent, something like, &#8220;I love cold weather, autobahn autobahn autobahn autobahn&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>From the snap in the air, I may wish I had remembered my gloves come quittin&#8217; time, but this morning, I wanted to ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another reader letter in the Gainesville Sun today referenced the &#8220;conservative-controlled media&#8221;. The Gainesville Sun? Conservative? I hardly think so. I worked there for a number of years, and come election time we tended to cluster around the few televisions in partisan groups. (I was a Perot supporter; we didn&#8217;t have our own TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gainesville","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}