{"id":7174,"date":"2014-11-20T21:05:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T21:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7174"},"modified":"2014-11-20T21:05:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T21:05:17","slug":"tv-networks-miss-a-chance-to-engage-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7174","title":{"rendered":"TV networks miss a chance to engage viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This post will be brief, so I&#8217;ll get right to the point.<\/p>\n<p>The major broadcast networks and a major cable network are blowing a chance to stay engaged in the immigration by declining to broadcast the president&#8217;s remarks tonight on the executive order he is about to issue.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/11\/19\/media\/networks-and-obama-speech\/index.html<\/p>\n<p>ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox have said &#8220;no thanks&#8221; to carrying the speech live. CNN and PBS will carry it.<\/p>\n<p>Given all the debate, discussion, finger-pointing, threats and lies told to and about all sides in this debate, I would have bet the proverbial farm that the networks would carry it live. It&#8217;s kind of a big deal, given what congressional Republicans have threatened to do when the president signs the order.<\/p>\n<p>Silly me. The broadcast networks have dramas and comedies to show.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post will be brief, so I&#8217;ll get right to the point. The major broadcast networks and a major cable network are blowing a chance to stay engaged in the immigration by declining to broadcast the president&#8217;s remarks tonight on the executive order he is about to issue. http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/11\/19\/media\/networks-and-obama-speech\/index.html ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TV networks miss a chance to engage viewers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[540,1664,2245],"class_list":["post-7174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-executive-order","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}