{"id":1933728,"date":"2023-05-19T01:28:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T05:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wired-mag-trashed-for-unintentionally-hilarious-puff-piece-on-pete-buttigieg\/"},"modified":"2023-05-19T01:29:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T05:29:24","slug":"wired-mag-trashed-for-unintentionally-hilarious-puff-piece-on-pete-buttigieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wired-mag-trashed-for-unintentionally-hilarious-puff-piece-on-pete-buttigieg\/","title":{"rendered":"Wired Mag criticized for funny article on Pete Buttigieg."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwired-mag-trashed-for-unintentionally-hilarious-puff-piece-on-pete-buttigieg%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1933728&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>WIRED Magazine Takes Heat for Fluffy Buttigieg Profile<\/h2>\n<p>WIRED Magazine, known for its coverage of how technology is changing our lives, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-pelosi-allowed-recently-covid-positive-rep-onto-house-floor-to-vote-for-her\/\" title=\"Report: Pelosi allowed recently COVID-positive rep. onto House floor to vote for her\">faced backlash<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> for a recent article on U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-covid-deaths-are-greatly-exaggerated-he-must-be-talking-about-all-of-the-poisonings-and-shootings-they-threw-on-the-list\/\" title=\"Trump Says COVID Deaths Are Greatly Exaggerated \u2013 He Must Be Talking About All of the Poisonings and Shootings They Threw on the List\">front-page<\/a> &#8220;big interview&#8221; by Virginia Heffernan, titled &#8220;Pete Buttigieg Loves God, Beer, and His Electric Mustang,&#8221; was criticized for its lack of substance and fawning admiration for the former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana.<\/p>\n<h3>Fluff Over Substance<\/h3>\n<p>Heffernan&#8217;s piece begins with a lengthy description of Buttigieg&#8217;s &#8220;curious mind,&#8221; comparing him to a Mensa black card holder with a secret Go habit and a knack for Rubik&#8217;s Cube. She goes on to describe his mental facilities, including his knowledge of the &#8220;Iliad,&#8221; Puritan historiography, and Knausgaard&#8217;s &#8220;Spring.&#8221; Critics were quick to point out that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wired-mag-trashed-for-unintentionally-hilarious-puff-piece-on-pete-buttigieg\/\" title=\"Wired Mag criticized for funny article on Pete Buttigieg.\">article lacked substance<\/a> and was more fluff than a substantive interview.<\/p>\n<h3>Backlash on Social Media<\/h3>\n<p>Critics took to social media to express their disappointment with the article. Meghan McCain commented, &#8220;The American people deserve better from our media than this slobbering.&#8221; Senator Ted Cruz added, &#8220;With this kind of glowing coverage, Biden and Kamala must be hearing footsteps!&#8221; Others compared the article to a parody and criticized WIRED for its lack of journalistic integrity.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>WIRED Magazine faced backlash for its recent article on Pete Buttigieg, which was criticized for its lack of substance and fawning admiration for the former Mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Critics took to social media to express their disappointment with the article, calling for better journalism and more substantive coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIRED Magazine faced backlash on social media for a puff piece on U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The magazine, known for its coverage of technology&#8217;s impact on various aspects of life, received criticism for the front-page interview titled &#8220;Pete Buttigieg Loves Transportation. Can He Make America Love It Too?&#8221; on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1933729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[9173,4943,6719,14797,27083,8633,22010],"class_list":["post-1933728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-article","tag-buttigieg","tag-criticized","tag-funny","tag-mag","tag-pete","tag-wired"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}