{"id":14054,"date":"2010-10-05T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14054"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:52:53","slug":"chanting-points-memo-a-world-of-pure-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14054","title":{"rendered":"Media: AWOL!  Day One!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember in June and July?<\/p>\n<p>When the Dayton Campaign, and their minimum-wage minions in the leftyblogosphere, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11556\"><em>demanded <\/em>that Tom Emmer release his budget plan<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Because without an Emmer Budget Plan in place for their perusal, democracy itself was in mortal danger!<\/p>\n<p>The entire media was in on it. of course.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Scheck at MPR?\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/collections\/special\/columns\/polinaut\/archive\/2010\/06\/the_daily_diges_856.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MPR_Polinaut+(Polinaut)\">He was asking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Pugmire at MPR?\u00a0 Yep, <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/collections\/special\/columns\/polinaut\/archive\/2010\/06\/three_dflers_on.shtml\">he wanted the details, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Black at the MNPost?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11406\">It was surely important<\/a> to him!<\/p>\n<p>The question <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/dailyglean\/2010\/07\/14\/19689\/emmers_100000_waiter_comments_still_stirs_the_political_pot\">certainly fascinated Rachel Stassen-Berger<\/a> at the <em>Strib<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Over the past five weeks, Tom Emmer has released a budget plan that balances the budget, and lays the groundwork for the kind of economic growth that actually sets economies up for the kind of long-term prosperity that makes budget fiascoes like the past four years dim, comic memories.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Mark Dayton&#8217;s first budget cratered &#8211; came up $3 Billion short &#8211; and his second attempt is well over a billion off the mark, and Dayton is now saying budgets don&#8217;t really matter that much anyway until he&#8217;s elected.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m wondering &#8211; where <em>are <\/em>the media who were so strident about having a budget to fact-check last summer?<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Stassen-Berger?\u00a0 Tim Pugmire?\u00a0 Tom Scheck?\u00a0 Pat Kessler?\u00a0 Bill Salisbury?\u00a0 Eric Black?\u00a0 David Brauer?<\/p>\n<p>Where are all the great journalistic instincts of one of the nation&#8217;s putatively top-twenty media markets?<\/p>\n<p>Or <em>don&#8217;t the people have a right to know anymore<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start counting up days until <em>someone <\/em>in the regional mainstream media &#8211; MPR, the Strib, the PiPress, WCCO-TV, <em>anyone <\/em>covers the vaporous vacuity of the Dayton &#8220;budget plan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Good thing I don&#8217;t pay for ink, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember in June and July? When the Dayton Campaign, and their minimum-wage minions in the leftyblogosphere, demanded that Tom Emmer release his budget plan? Because without an Emmer Budget Plan in place for their perusal, democracy itself was in mortal danger! The entire media was in on it. of course. Tom Scheck at MPR?\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,60,117,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-campaign-10","category-dayton-dustbowl","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14054","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=14054"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49865,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14054\/revisions\/49865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}