{"id":186,"date":"2008-04-25T04:31:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T08:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2008-04-25T04:34:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T08:34:08","slug":"tmz-dr-phils-moment-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/25\/tmz-dr-phils-moment-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"TMZ: Dr. Phil&#8217;s Moment of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>TMZ.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2008\/04\/24\/dr-phils-moment-of-truth\/\" title=\"TMZ: Dr. Phil's Moment of Truth\" target=\"_blank\">lampoons<\/a> Dr. Phil McGraw&#8217;s use of polygraphs and tawdry topics to boost ratings, comparing his daytime television talk show with the Fox network&#8217;s game show, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/cgi-bin\/forums\/YaBB.pl?num=1200915456\" title=\"Fox Lie Detector Game Show 'The Moment of Truth'\">The Moment of Truth<\/a>.<\/em> In point of fact, however, the <em>Dr. Phil<\/em> show&#8217;s shameless use of lie detectors as a ratings gimmick predates <em>The Moment of Truth<\/em> and has been the topic of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/custom?q=%22Dr.+Phil%22&amp;sa=Search&amp;cof=LW%3A375%3BALC%3A%23cc0000%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fantipolygraph.org%2Faplogo.gif%3BLC%3A%233333cc%3BLH%3A40%3BBGC%3A%23ffffff%3BAH%3Acenter%3BVLC%3A%233333cc%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fantipolygraph.org%3BAWFID%3A9f71669ee39b0670%3B&amp;domains=antipolygraph.org&amp;sitesearch=antipolygraph.org\" title=\"Google search of 'Dr. Phil' on AntiPolygraph.org\">much discussion<\/a> on AntiPolygraph.org.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TMZ.com lampoons Dr. Phil McGraw&#8217;s use of polygraphs and tawdry topics to boost ratings, comparing his daytime television talk show with the Fox network&#8217;s game show, The Moment of Truth. In point of fact, however, the Dr. Phil show&#8217;s shameless use of lie detectors as a ratings gimmick predates The Moment of Truth and has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-dr-phil","8":"tag-the-moment-of-truth","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}