{"id":33528,"date":"2013-01-17T05:15:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T11:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33528"},"modified":"2013-01-16T21:49:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T03:49:08","slug":"but-dont-you-dare-say-the-press-is-biased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33528","title":{"rendered":"But Don&#8217;t You <i>Dare<\/i> Say The Press Is Biased!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Example 1<\/strong>: The Strib&#8217;s Josephine Marcotty and Bill McAuliffe in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/statelocal\/187059651.html?refer=y\">a piece yesterday<\/a> on the legislature leaping onto the anthropogenic global warming express:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Science made a comeback at the State Capitol on Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Example 2<\/strong>: Bob Schieffer says defeating the NRA is a moral crusade along the lines of defeating the Nazis:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/119445\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BOB SCHIEFFER: &#8230;Let&#8217;s remember: there was considerable opposition when Lyndon Johnson went to the Congress and&#8230;presented some of the most comprehensive civil rights legislation in the history of this country. Most people told him he couldn&#8217;t get it done, but he figured out a way to do it. And that&#8217;s what Barack Obama is going to have to do&#8230;what happened in Newtown was probably the worst day in this country&#8217;s history since 9\/11. We found Osama bin Laden. We tracked him down. We changed the way that we dealt with that problem. Surely, finding Osama bin Laden; surely, passing civil rights legislation, as Lyndon Johnson was able to do; and before that, surely, defeating the Nazis, was a much more formidable task than taking on the gun lobby.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to think merely ignoring the mainstream media isn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Example 1: The Strib&#8217;s Josephine Marcotty and Bill McAuliffe in a piece yesterday on the legislature leaping onto the anthropogenic global warming express: Science made a comeback at the State Capitol on Tuesday. Example 2: Bob Schieffer says defeating the NRA is a moral crusade along the lines of defeating the Nazis: BOB SCHIEFFER: &#8230;Let&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33528","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=33528"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33540,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33528\/revisions\/33540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}