{"id":7135,"date":"2011-03-19T14:04:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T21:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=7135"},"modified":"2011-03-19T11:23:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T18:23:58","slug":"natural-gas-prices-heading-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/natural-gas-prices-heading-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural gas prices heading higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a conspiracy theory type of guy, but CNN continues to do things that seem more than a little odd. From the outset of their coverage on Japan&#8217;s nuclear situation they have been exceedingly alarmist <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/and-now-for-something-completely-different\/>as I have mentioned before<\/a>. Immediately after their gloom and doom predictions of nuclear holocaust, Fukushima being worse than Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, yada, yada, yada, they would feature ads for &#8220;America\u2019s Natural Gas Alliance.&#8221; The ads talked about how clean and safe natural gas is. The timing seemed most unusual.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the very same CNN is reporting that <a href=http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/marketwire\/0734180.htm target=_new>Natural Gas Rallies as Nuclear Falls Out of Favor<\/a>. Does anyone know if the owners of CNN (Time Warner) also own a stake in natural gas? Or maybe they are just doing what they are doing for the natural gas advertising dollars? In any event, this seems like a conflict of interest that should be disclosed to those watching supposedly objective news reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a conspiracy theory type of guy, but CNN continues to do things that seem more than a little odd. From the outset of their coverage on Japan&#8217;s nuclear situation they have been exceedingly alarmist as I have mentioned before. Immediately after their gloom and doom predictions of nuclear holocaust, Fukushima being worse than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7137,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7135\/revisions\/7137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}