{"id":1870,"date":"2011-06-28T18:59:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T01:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2011\/06\/welcome_to_dogpatch\/"},"modified":"2011-06-28T18:59:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T01:59:33","slug":"welcome_to_dogpatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2011\/06\/welcome_to_dogpatch.html","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Dogpatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303627104576410051761796150.html?mod=ITP_pageone_0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"'Court Conservatives Prevail' CLICK TO READ.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/assets_c\/2011\/06\/WSJlogo-thumb-272x47-20156.png\" width=\"272\" height=\"47\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303627104576410051761796150.html?mod=ITP_pageone_0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"The Wall Street Journal's front-page article above the fold [June 28, 2011]. CLICK TO READ.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/assets_c\/2011\/06\/WSJbravin-thumb-512x249-20158.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"233\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOr should I say, welcome back to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Banana_republic\">BananaRepublic<\/a> &#8212; land of the red, white &#038; blue, and home of the brave. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8eqOZFiBUMs\">Al Capp<\/a> must be smiling.<br \/>\nAnd by the way, don&#8217;t take the subhead on that article at face value. That&#8217;s the WSJ putting an editorial slant on the news story. Here, in the third paragraph, is what the story really says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While broad majorities of the court have voted to affirm protections for such long-recognized forms of expression as picketing, movies and now videogames, conservatives have outvoted liberals to confer First Amendment rights on business and void campaign-finance regulations that advocates say promote fairer elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Had the subhead accurately reflected the whole story and not just some of it, it would have said:<br \/>\n<em><strong>Rulings Cap Term That Broadened Free Speech, Killed Fair Election Financing<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Postscript:<\/strong> July 1 &#8212; The NY Times chimes in: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/01\/opinion\/01fri1.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">Ethics, Politics and the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or should I say, welcome back to the BananaRepublic &#8212; land of the red, white &#038; blue, and home of the brave. Al Capp must be smiling. And by the way, don&#8217;t take the subhead on that article at face value. That&#8217;s the WSJ putting an editorial slant on the news story. 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