{"id":1133,"date":"2007-08-02T11:39:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T16:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2007-08-05T12:26:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T17:26:33","slug":"the-bridge-he-can-tell-you-bout-the-plane-crash-with-a-twinkle-in-his-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1133","title":{"rendered":"The Bridge: He Can Tell You ‘Bout The Plane Crash With A Twinkle In His Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched a bunch of coverage of the Bridge disaster last night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I wanted to figure out how to criticize Don Shelby’s unctuous – and eventually revoltingly-politicized – commentary as succinctly as possible.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, The Elder – who at least works\u00a0in the same building\u00a0<\/em>as engineers –\u00a0is on duty<\/a>, wielding deft satire…:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0The Don Shelby Credibility Bridge–spanning the divide between the local anchorman’s ego and reality–collapsed without warning shortly before 10pm this evening. Preliminary indications are that a massive failure in Shelby’s structural integrity led to the collapse. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0…and a fact-checking machete:<\/p>\n

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The man’s self-importance knows no limits and it was on display for all to see this evening. At a time when the news coverage should have focused solely on rescue and recovery efforts, Shelby almost immediately launched into discussions about the possible causes of the collapse and where blame could be assigned. He was obviously getting all his information on bridge structures and engineering from other sources, but he rarely if ever mentioned them, giving the viewer the impression that HE DON SHELBY knew all about such matters and was able and willing to start drawing conclusions while the rubble was still settling. It was a disgusting display of arrogance with an almost total absence of wisdom.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

RARE COMPLIMENT ALERT:\u00a0 The Twin Cities daily newspapers have, at first glance, done a decent job with their coverage.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I watched a bunch of coverage of the Bridge disaster last night.\u00a0 I wanted to figure out how to criticize Don Shelby’s unctuous – and eventually revoltingly-politicized – commentary as succinctly as possible. Fortunately, The Elder – who at least works\u00a0in the same building\u00a0as engineers –\u00a0is on duty, wielding deft satire…: \u00a0The Don Shelby Credibility […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge-collapse","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}