{"id":38372,"date":"2013-09-13T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38372"},"modified":"2013-09-30T12:19:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T17:19:55","slug":"hypothetical-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38372","title":{"rendered":"Hypothetical Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think the Twin CIties media would say, and do, and write, if they found out that&#8230;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Power Line<\/em>, the Twin Cities&#8217; premier political blog (yeah, Hot Air is huge, but it&#8217;s not really based here.\u00a0 Sorry, Ed), and&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>A hypothetical conservative &#8220;mainstream&#8221; news outlet &#8211; say, the <em>Pioneer Press <\/em>after a buyout &#8211; and&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The National Rifle Association, the Gun Owners of America, and\u00a0the Minnesota Gun Owners CIvil Rights Alliance&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;all got funding from, say, the Koch Brothers?<\/p>\n<p>Take your shot at writing the headlines you&#8217;d see in the <em>Strib, <\/em>on WCCO and KARE, and on MPR (to say nothing of NPR), in the comment section.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait &#8211; it&#8217;s not remotely hypothetical.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think the Twin CIties media would say, and do, and write, if they found out that&#8230;: Power Line, the Twin Cities&#8217; premier political blog (yeah, Hot Air is huge, but it&#8217;s not really based here.\u00a0 Sorry, Ed), and&#8230; A hypothetical conservative &#8220;mainstream&#8221; news outlet &#8211; say, the Pioneer Press after a buyout [&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-38372","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\/38372","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=38372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38673,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38372\/revisions\/38673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}