{"id":30938,"date":"2012-10-08T07:27:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T12:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30938"},"modified":"2012-10-08T07:28:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T12:28:37","slug":"will-the-others-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30938","title":{"rendered":"Will The Others Follow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Pioneer Press<\/em> has opted not to give endorsements this year.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect &#8211; and this is just a, er, shot in the dark on my part, pure speculation &#8211; that there are one or two reasons for this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <em>Pioneer Press<\/em> has figured out that press endorsements are just another form of bandwagoneering unbecoming a &#8220;journalistic&#8221; entity. \u00a0 While the <em>Pioneer Press&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0endorsement record is a lot more bipartisan than the Strib&#8217;s, a record (generally, across the media, not just at the <em>Pioneer Press<\/em>) of mostly-DFL endorsements provides prime ammunition for the charge that the press is biased to the left.<\/li>\n<li>They were facing the prospect of having to\u00a0<em>not endorse Betty McCollum<\/em>. \u00a0The long-time DFL Congresswoman has been such an incredible non-entity, and has developed into such a rancorously partisan figure in Congress, that a significant part of the editorial board decided not to endorse. \u00a0After a fierce battle with the rest of the board, and facing backlash from a pro-DFL staff, the paper decided to just avoid the whole mess.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Again, the above is purely speculation. \u00a0It&#8217;s only if I were to joke about or mock the ideas above that they would be ensured of being proven correct. [1]<\/p>\n<p>Rather than endorsing 2nd CD representative John Kline, they opt merely to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/opinion\/ci_21709334\/editorial-race-watch-minnesotas-2nd-congressional-district\">write about<\/a> how completely he&#8217;s dominated the district, but how redistricting might make Mike Obermueller&#8217;s DFL bid a little more tenable than whoever it was that ran last time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>[1] Statutory notice under the Satire Labelling Act of 2007: This sentence is hyperbole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pioneer Press has opted not to give endorsements this year. I suspect &#8211; and this is just a, er, shot in the dark on my part, pure speculation &#8211; that there are one or two reasons for this: The Pioneer Press has figured out that press endorsements are just another form of bandwagoneering unbecoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30938","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=30938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30941,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30938\/revisions\/30941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}