{"id":6261,"date":"2018-07-05T16:14:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T16:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=6261"},"modified":"2024-11-07T18:29:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T18:29:34","slug":"hold-the-presses-national-news-starbucks-barista-in-philadelphia-alledgedly-mocked-customers-stutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/07\/05\/hold-the-presses-national-news-starbucks-barista-in-philadelphia-alledgedly-mocked-customers-stutter\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold the presses! National news! &#8220;Starbucks barista in Philadelphia alledgedly mocked customer&#8217;s stutter&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a LOCAL story at best. The news media continues to damage itself into irrelevancy by promoting local click bait trivia stories into a national conversation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A barista at a Starbucks cafe in Philadelphia is accused of mocking a man with a stutter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/07\/05\/starbucks-barista-in-philadelphia-reportedly-mocked-customers-stutter.html\">Starbucks barista in Philadelphia alledgedly mocked customer&#8217;s stutter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This is not national news. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/sarah-whitten\/\">creative writing<\/a> by a trivia reporter designed to hook an emotional response. Emotional nonsense news is perfect for sharing on social media! And yes, it&#8217;s all over Twitter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I&#8217;ve had bad service from inconsiderate staff, and rude and insulting service from the office staff of U.S. Senator Jeff Merkeley. But is that a national news story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a LOCAL story at best. The news media continues to damage itself into irrelevancy by promoting local click bait trivia stories into a national conversation: A barista at a Starbucks cafe in Philadelphia is accused of mocking a man with a stutter. Source: Starbucks barista in Philadelphia alledgedly mocked customer&#8217;s stutter This is not national news. This is creative writing by a trivia reporter designed to hook an emotional response. Emotional nonsense news is perfect for sharing on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/07\/05\/hold-the-presses-national-news-starbucks-barista-in-philadelphia-alledgedly-mocked-customers-stutter\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}