{"id":2433,"date":"2008-04-14T07:29:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T12:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:35:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:35:06","slug":"whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-media-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2433","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Afraid Of The Big Bad Media, Part IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2368\">noted <\/a>that of the six big DFL pols or organizations that I&#8217;d contacted &#8211; Franken, Klobuchar, Ellison, McCollum, Rybak, and Growth and Justice &#8211; none had responded to my request for an interview.<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, in response to Andy Birkey&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotamonitor.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=3492\">piece <\/a>in the Minnesoros Monitor, who sniffed that Michele Bachmann seemed to be limiting her media appearances to friendly conservative and Christian outlets.<\/p>\n<p>And we have an update!<\/p>\n<p>I left phone and email messages to all of the subjects save one, for whom I couldn&#8217;t find phone numbers.  And as I noted, I got responses from only one &#8211; and Dane Smith of Growth and Justice will be appearing on the NARN this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>And now there&#8217;s another &#8211; maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Updates as they are warranted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I noted that of the six big DFL pols or organizations that I&#8217;d contacted &#8211; Franken, Klobuchar, Ellison, McCollum, Rybak, and Growth and Justice &#8211; none had responded to my request for an interview. This, of course, in response to Andy Birkey&#8217;s piece in the Minnesoros Monitor, who sniffed that Michele Bachmann seemed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,20],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-democrats","tag-a-klo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","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=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76207,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/76207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}