{"id":395,"date":"2005-06-15T17:37:42","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T21:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=395"},"modified":"2005-06-15T20:14:20","modified_gmt":"2005-06-16T00:14:20","slug":"theres-no-business-like-a-media-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no business like a media frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Michael Jackson reportedly in the the financial dumps, and his accusers not likely to see much notoriety beyond <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courttv.com\/news\/jackson\/\">the trial<\/a>, at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/LAW\/06\/15\/michael.jackson.ap\/index.html\"> <em>someone<\/em> benefited from all this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCarmen Jenkins, 46, said a surge in sales at her Coffee Diem store near the courthouse would help her buy a new BMW. The coffee shop, popular with journalists for its caffeine, food and wireless Internet connection, had only a few patrons the day after the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>A chalkboard sign on the storefront Tuesday politely announced: &#8220;Dear Media, We will miss you very much. Thank you for everything.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there you have it.  Not everyone hates the media for causing such a ruckus.  Though I have to wonder, just <em>how much<\/em> extra coffee does one have to sell in order to afford a new BMW solely on those proceeds?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Michael Jackson reportedly in the the financial dumps, and his accusers not likely to see much notoriety beyond the trial, at least someone benefited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}