{"id":36495,"date":"2013-05-29T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36495"},"modified":"2013-05-28T10:02:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T15:02:24","slug":"afflicting-the-comfortable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36495","title":{"rendered":"Afflicting The Comfortable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good\u00a0Politico\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/05\/sharyl-attkisson-91871.html\">profile on CBS&#8217;s Sharyl Attkisson<\/a>, the one reporter in all of mainstream media who&#8217;ll actually confront Obama.<\/p>\n<p>I loved this bit here (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attkisson is a dogged reporter, driven by a strong skepticism of government. Producers at CBS News once nicknamed her \u201cPit Bull,\u201d a source said, because she gets on a story and won\u2019t let go. But that is seen as both a strength and a weakness. <strong>Her drive can produce great journalism, but it can also cause her to push stories to the point that colleagues \u2014 especially those of a more progressive bent \u2014 suspect a political agenda<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Didja catch that? \u00a0<em>Doing what was one called a journalist&#8217;s &#8220;Job&#8221;, reporting on government, is now evidence of an agenda<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s worth wondering &#8211; what if the Twin Cities had a reporter like this? \u00a0One that cared more about reporting news than being accepted by the Twin Cities&#8217; &#8220;elites?&#8221; \u00a0Other than Tom Hauser, I mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good\u00a0Politico\u00a0profile on CBS&#8217;s Sharyl Attkisson, the one reporter in all of mainstream media who&#8217;ll actually confront Obama. I loved this bit here (emphasis added): Attkisson is a dogged reporter, driven by a strong skepticism of government. Producers at CBS News once nicknamed her \u201cPit Bull,\u201d a source said, because she gets on a story 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":[4,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36495","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\/36495","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=36495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36497,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495\/revisions\/36497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}