{"id":1605,"date":"2005-05-20T23:13:09","date_gmt":"2005-05-21T04:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1605"},"modified":"2005-05-20T23:57:35","modified_gmt":"2005-05-21T04:57:35","slug":"navel_gazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/20\/navel_gazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Navel gazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><A href=\"http:\/\/thepoliticalteen.net\/2005\/05\/20\/1483\/\"><IMG style=\"WIDTH: 220px; HEIGHT: 152px\" alt=\"\" hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/SMOnMSNBC.jpg\" align=left vspace=10 border=0><\/A><\/P>\n<P><STRONG>Attack of the blog roundups: <\/STRONG>MSNBC showed a screenshot of Vinod&#8217;s <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001569.html\">Indra Nooyi<\/A> post today. <A href=\"http:\/\/thepoliticalteen.net\/2005\/05\/20\/1483\/\">Watch the clip<\/A>.<\/P>\n<P>They focused on Nooyi&#8217;s actual remarks and her position as Pepsi president, not <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001579.html\">the nativist backlash<\/A>, which is exactly right. Oddly, they quoted the <EM>mildest<\/EM> phrase that&#8217;s ever been written on <A href=\"http:\/\/www.littlegreenfootballs.com\/weblog\">Little Green Frothballs<\/A>: &#8216;I drink Coke anyway.&#8217;<\/P>\n<P><A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/VinodOnCNBC.jpg\"><IMG alt=\"\" hspace=20 src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/VinodOnCNBC.jpg\" align=right vspace=10 border=0><\/A>This actually isn&#8217;t Vinod&#8217;s first time on an NBC network &#8212; here&#8217;s a photo of his appearance on CNBC several years ago. I&#8217;m not sure why he looks angry, but maybe someone stole his copy of <EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0553277472?v=glance\">ZAMM<\/A>.<\/EM><\/P>\n<P>Also, <EM>Slate<\/EM> <A href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2118361\/\">mentioned<\/A>&nbsp;our <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001513.html\">MIT time traveler&nbsp;post<\/A>&nbsp;last week, which Abhi first <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001495.html\">wrote about<\/A>.<\/P>\n<P style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">Thanks for the pixels, anonymous bored journies! Do your bosses know you surf blogs instead of working? Not that you&#8217;ll ever read this unless it pops up on <A href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\">Technorati<\/A> with keywords about national stories. Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t see us writing about&nbsp;<STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001131.html\">PARIS HILTON<\/A><\/STRONG>, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001003.html\"><STRONG>MICHAEL JACKSON<\/STRONG><\/A><STRONG> <\/STRONG>or<STRONG> <\/STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001397.html\"><STRONG>TERRY SCHIAVO<\/STRONG><\/A>&nbsp;without a genuine desi angle.&nbsp;That would just be crass.<\/P>\n<P style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">But <EM>The Daily Show<\/EM> was right, reading blogs out loud on TV does look pretty silly (<A href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/onegoodmove\/movies\/ds051005blogosphere.html\">watch clip<\/A>). How about showing our dating profiles next time? Now <EM>that<\/EM> would be useful TV \ud83d\ude09<\/P><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attack of the blog roundups: MSNBC showed a screenshot of Vinod&#8217;s Indra Nooyi post today. Watch the clip. They focused on Nooyi&#8217;s actual remarks and her position as Pepsi president, not the nativist backlash, which is exactly right. Oddly, they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/20\/navel_gazing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}