{"id":18235,"date":"2011-02-18T06:15:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18235"},"modified":"2011-02-17T19:16:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T01:16:29","slug":"bias-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18235","title":{"rendered":"Madison:  Nope, <i>Still<\/i> No Liberal Media Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I noted that the CEO of National Public Radio was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18218\">shocked, shocked that conservatives thought her network leaned left<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And then, on &#8220;All Things Considered&#8221; as I drove home from work, I caught NPR&#8217;s piece on the Wisconsin Senate Democrat Caucus&#8217; <em>coup d&#8217;etat<\/em>, fleeing the state to avoid losing a vote on collective bargaining.<\/p>\n<p>And I was astonished &#8211; not really &#8211; to hear the audio tongue bath that ensued. \u00a0 The NPR piece &#8211; from Wisconsin Public Radio&#8217;s Kristen Durst (I&#8217;ll post a link to the audio when it&#8217;s available) &#8211; positively glowed with approval, lionizing them as heroes showing &#8220;solidarity with the unions&#8221;, giving only the most technical shred of balance; it was a puff piece for the demonstrations, and nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>So, National Public Radio &#8211; if you&#8217;ll suffer a question from a mere peasant &#8211; what <em>is <\/em>the surprise?<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-18235-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wpr.org\/webcasting\/playmp3.cfm?pagename=%2Fnews%2Fnewsstories.cfm&#038;_=1#038;FileName=nws110217gh.mp3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpr.org\/webcasting\/playmp3.cfm?pagename=\/news\/newsstories.cfm&#038;FileName=nws110217gh.mp3\">http:\/\/www.wpr.org\/webcasting\/playmp3.cfm?pagename=\/news\/newsstories.cfm&#038;FileName=nws110217gh.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I noted that the CEO of National Public Radio was\u00a0shocked, shocked that conservatives thought her network leaned left. And then, on &#8220;All Things Considered&#8221; as I drove home from work, I caught NPR&#8217;s piece on the Wisconsin Senate Democrat Caucus&#8217; coup d&#8217;etat, fleeing the state to avoid losing a vote on collective bargaining. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235","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=18235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18239,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18235\/revisions\/18239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}