{"id":188296,"date":"2025-11-06T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=188296"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:00:13","slug":"colin-sheridan-smear-v-journalism-one-intends-to-wound-the-other-to-inform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=188296","title":{"rendered":"Colin Sheridan: Smear v journalism\u00a0\u2014 One intends to wound, the other to inform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan Yates\u2019 &#8216;smear&#8217; comments weren\u2019t a joke \u2014 they exposed how suspicion, fear, and cynicism now drive Irish politics&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/opinion\/columnists\/arid-41721801.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivan Yates\u2019 &#8216;smear&#8217; comments weren\u2019t a joke \u2014 they exposed how suspicion, fear, and cynicism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188296-colin-sheridan-smear-v-journalism-one-intends-to-wound-the-other-to-inform.jpg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188296-colin-sheridan-smear-v-journalism-one-intends-to-wound-the-other-to-inform-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188296-colin-sheridan-smear-v-journalism-one-intends-to-wound-the-other-to-inform-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188296-colin-sheridan-smear-v-journalism-one-intends-to-wound-the-other-to-inform-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188296-colin-sheridan-smear-v-journalism-one-intends-to-wound-the-other-to-inform-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188296-colin-sheridan-smear-v-journalism-one-intends-to-wound-the-other-to-inform.jpg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188296-colin-sheridan-smear-v-journalism-one-intends-to-wound-the-other-to-inform.jpg",1200,675,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188296-colin-sheridan-smear-v-journalism-one-intends-to-wound-the-other-to-inform-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188296-colin-sheridan-smear-v-journalism-one-intends-to-wound-the-other-to-inform-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/188296-colin-sheridan-smear-v-journalism-one-intends-to-wound-the-other-to-inform-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}