{"id":6385,"date":"2013-06-13T14:07:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T21:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6385"},"modified":"2015-10-13T12:24:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:24:29","slug":"why-i-uninstalled-stitcher-from-my-android-phone-horror-death-and-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/13\/why-i-uninstalled-stitcher-from-my-android-phone-horror-death-and-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Uninstalled Stitcher from my Android Phone: Horror, Death and Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<strong>update<\/strong>: Stitcher responded and I haven&#8217;t had the problem again, see the comments)<\/p>\n<p>Here is my email to the Stitcher.com folks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In April I wrote that I was uninstalling Stitcher &#8220;because the only &#8220;daily update&#8221; news I ever get is of horror, death, and pain. Sure, if it bleeds it leads, but not on my phone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You guys wrote back and showed me how to disable notifications in the Settings so I reinstalled Stitcher and disabled notifications. Today the app chimed in out of the blue telling me about a multiple murder &#8220;deadly shooting rampage&#8221; in St. Louis complete with a photo of a man in a gurney being rushing into an ambulance by paramedics.<\/p>\n<p>I am guessing Stitcher updated itself and the settings didn&#8217;t carry over from the previous install.<\/p>\n<p>Please answer this: why should I subject myself to such persistent negativity when I have clearly asked you and your app to stop?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(update: Stitcher responded and I haven&#8217;t had the problem again, see the comments) Here is my email to the Stitcher.com folks: In April I wrote that I was uninstalling Stitcher &#8220;because the only &#8220;daily update&#8221; news I ever get is of horror, death, and pain. Sure, if it bleeds it leads, but not on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}