{"id":1749,"date":"2006-11-07T09:06:22","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T17:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/in_a_newsroom_where_people_obviously_live_under_a_rock_reporters_are_increasingly_writing_really_idiotic_trend_pieces.html"},"modified":"2006-11-07T09:06:22","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T17:06:22","slug":"in_a_newsroom_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/in_a_newsroom_w.html","title":{"rendered":"In A Newsroom Where People Obviously Live Under A Rock, Reporters Are Increasingly Writing Really Idiotic Trend Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe the wire services are <em>just now<\/em> figuring out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/11072006\/news\/regionalnews\/easy_bake_pot_delivery_regionalnews_.htm\">this happens<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In a city where you can get just about anything delivered to your door, New Yorkers are increasingly ordering takeout marijuana from drug rings that operate with remarkable corporate-style attention to customer satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>Among the legions of home-delivery customers is Chris, 37, a salesman in Manhattan. He dials a pager and gets a call from a cheery dispatcher who takes his order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are very nice, discreet people,&#8221; said Chris. &#8220;It&#8217;s better than going to some street corner and getting ripped off or killed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The corporate model was demonstrated late last year when the Drug Enforcement Administration busted a ring dubbed the Cartoon Network, which processed 600 orders a day.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe the wire services are just now figuring out that this happens: In a city where you can get just about anything delivered to your door, New Yorkers are increasingly ordering takeout marijuana from drug rings that operate with remarkable corporate-style attention to customer satisfaction. Among the legions of home-delivery customers is Chris, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}