{"id":14136,"date":"2010-10-07T12:21:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T17:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14136"},"modified":"2010-10-07T12:21:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T17:21:31","slug":"all-the-news-thats-fit-to-manufacture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14136","title":{"rendered":"All The News That’s Fit To Manufacture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Uptake is a regional “videoblog”, featuring contributions from left-leaning “Citizen Journalists”.<\/p>\n

I’ve written about them before; on the one hand, I know some of the people involved with The Uptake, and they have in the past sworn up and down that they want The Uptake to be a legit news source; they’ve put in some efforts in the past to try to accomplish that. \u00a0On the other hand, they’ve had a lot of bobblehead contributors and employees with strange ideas of what journalism is<\/a>, or who want to use it as a vehicle for grinding personal<\/a> or social<\/a> axes.<\/p>\n

They’re at it again<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Uptake is pushing\u00a0a video<\/a> that they were denied access into a press event with Newt Gingrich today.<\/p>\n

The Uptake \u201creporter\u201d said to a MNGOP staffer they had spoken to MNGOP Communications Director Mark Drake and were credentialed for the event. \u00a0According to sources this is untrue. \u00a0The Uptake never contacted the RPM for access and thus were never credentialed for the event.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My own sources confirm; the conversation never happened.<\/p>\n

There are <\/em>some grownups at the Uptake. \u00a0Are they going to step up, one of these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Uptake is a regional “videoblog”, featuring contributions from left-leaning “Citizen Journalists”. I’ve written about them before; on the one hand, I know some of the people involved with The Uptake, and they have in the past sworn up and down that they want The Uptake to be a legit news source; they’ve put in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14136","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=14136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14137,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14136\/revisions\/14137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}