{"id":5953,"date":"2010-05-01T08:14:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T13:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2010-05-01T08:14:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T13:14:32","slug":"the_new_hyperlocal_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/the_new_hyperlocal_news.html","title":{"rendered":"The New &#8220;Hyperlocal&#8221; News!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suffice it to say, <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/30\/megan-and-jeff-what-we-know\/\">there are two reporters listed on this followup<\/a>. What, there wasn&#8217;t another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/27\/nyregion\/27gorilla.html\">Gorilla Coffee<\/a> angle to cover yesterday?<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2010\/04\/times-city-room-swallows-own-tail-explodes\">Concur<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>But in this post-modern world, what if the story is actually something more clever than anyone realizes, even going beyond the mildly intriguing yet commonplace &#8220;story behind the story&#8221; speculation about crass viral marketing? What if, in the context of <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/26\/wall-street-journal-says-its-up-to-you-new-york-new-york\/\">the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s recent moves into the New York media market<\/a>, it&#8217;s actually an elaborate &#8220;rope-a-dope&#8221; scheme to make us all <em>think<\/em> that the Times is resting on its laurels when actually the metro reporters are busy preparing an explosive Bloomberg cheating scandal expose? Or some such. Or perhaps I&#8217;m overthinking this and just want Sewell Chan back on his old beat . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suffice it to say, there are two reporters listed on this followup. What, there wasn&#8217;t another Gorilla Coffee angle to cover yesterday? [Concur.] But in this post-modern world, what if the story is actually something more clever than anyone realizes, even going beyond the mildly intriguing yet commonplace &#8220;story behind the story&#8221; speculation about crass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,20,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap_your_pants_say_yeah","category-the_new_york_times","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953","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=5953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5954,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions\/5954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}