{"id":70842,"date":"2019-03-25T06:33:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70842"},"modified":"2020-12-13T07:38:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T13:38:27","slug":"bergs-fourteenth-law-of-media-behavior","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=70842","title":{"rendered":"Berg’s Fourteenth Law Of Media Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The more strenuously a media organization identifies itself as “fact-checkers”, the more completely their “fact checking” will actually be checking statement for congruency with progressive conventional wisdom. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all – there was a time when “journalism” was “fact-checking”. The fact that a “fact check” industry (let’s assume for a moment they’re on the left, which the existence of Berg’s 14th Law indicates they are not). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But ongoing developments at “Politifact” and “Snopes” have borne this law out in spades -and spawned a corollary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Maddow Corollary to Berg’s Fourteenth Law<\/strong>:  The same goes for science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a society full of people who think “following Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Twitter” and “making jokes about creationists” is “Science”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are all the references to Berg’s 14th Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The more strenuously a media organization identifies itself as “fact-checkers”, the more completely their “fact checking” will actually be checking statement for congruency with progressive conventional wisdom. First of all – there was a time when “journalism” was “fact-checking”. The fact that a “fact check” industry (let’s assume for a moment they’re on the left, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5033,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70842","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76131,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70842\/revisions\/76131"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}