{"id":285866,"date":"2018-08-29T21:52:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T21:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/08\/29\/mediamattersforamerica-media-portray-these\/"},"modified":"2018-12-10T22:32:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T22:32:16","slug":"mediamattersforamerica-media-portray-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/08\/29\/mediamattersforamerica-media-portray-these\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-285866 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/08\/29\/mediamattersforamerica-media-portray-these\/attachment\/285867\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tumblr_pdyx97eVWr1ql10y6o3_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tumblr_pdyx97eVWr1ql10y6o3_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tumblr_pdyx97eVWr1ql10y6o3_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/08\/29\/mediamattersforamerica-media-portray-these\/attachment\/285868\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tumblr_pdyx97eVWr1ql10y6o2_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tumblr_pdyx97eVWr1ql10y6o2_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tumblr_pdyx97eVWr1ql10y6o2_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/08\/29\/mediamattersforamerica-media-portray-these\/attachment\/285869\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tumblr_pdyx97eVWr1ql10y6o1_640-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tumblr_pdyx97eVWr1ql10y6o1_640-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tumblr_pdyx97eVWr1ql10y6o1_640-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/08\/29\/mediamattersforamerica-media-portray-these\/attachment\/285870\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tumblr_pdyx97eVWr1ql10y6o4_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tumblr_pdyx97eVWr1ql10y6o4_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tumblr_pdyx97eVWr1ql10y6o4_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamattersforamerica.tumblr.com\/post\/177341788413\/media-portray-these-tales-of-perseverance-as\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">mediamattersforamerica<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/24\/media-portray-these-tales-perseverance-uplifting-and-inspirational-theyre-actually-horror-stories\/221087\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Media portray these tales of perseverance as uplifting and inspirational. They\u2019re actually horror stories.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These four examples all come from just the past five months, but there are countless additional articles and segments that share the same lessons about never giving up, going the extra mile, and taking care of others. The articles are framed to make you feel good, to illustrate the kindness of others, to show you that things can work out when tragedy hits, and yes, to \u201crestore your faith in humanity.\u201d These are excellent messages that we could probably all benefit from having in our lives,<b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/24\/media-portray-these-tales-perseverance-uplifting-and-inspirational-theyre-actually-horror-stories\/221087\" target=\"_blank\">but there\u2019s one thing that gets left out on an all-too-regular basis: the underlying causes.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mediamattersforamerica: Media portray these tales of perseverance as uplifting and inspirational. They\u2019re actually horror stories. These four examples all come from just the past five months, but there are countless additional articles and segments that share the same lessons about never giving up, going the extra mile, and taking care of others. The articles are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/08\/29\/mediamattersforamerica-media-portray-these\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[260,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285871,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285866\/revisions\/285871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}