{"id":38428,"date":"2013-09-17T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38428"},"modified":"2013-09-17T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T14:51:18","slug":"but-dont-you-dare-claim-the-media-is-biased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38428","title":{"rendered":"But Don&#8217;t You Dare Claim The Media Is Biased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Alexis, the alleged Navy Yard shooter, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2013\/09\/16\/background-details-on-supected-shooter-aaron-alexis\/\">originally <\/a>hailed from Queens.\u00a0 He spent some time in Seattle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the BBC and NPR referred to him as a &#8220;Texan&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 And CNN went one further, calling him a Texan and a military contractor, for the lefty narrative bifecta.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(He <em>was <\/em>a &#8220;military contractor&#8221;, inasmuch as he was working for a firm that was subcontracting with Hewlett-Packard&#8230;to work on the Navy&#8217;s intranet.\u00a0 Think Blackwater, only for networking geeks).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The narrative, above all, must be served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Alexis, the alleged Navy Yard shooter, originally hailed from Queens.\u00a0 He spent some time in Seattle.\u00a0 But the BBC and NPR referred to him as a &#8220;Texan&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 And CNN went one further, calling him a Texan and a military contractor, for the lefty narrative bifecta.\u00a0 (He was a &#8220;military contractor&#8221;, inasmuch as he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38428","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=38428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38434,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38428\/revisions\/38434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}