{"id":38431,"date":"2013-09-17T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38431"},"modified":"2013-09-17T09:51:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T14:51:23","slug":"low-information-reporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38431","title":{"rendered":"Low-Information Reporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever there&#8217;s a big story involving firearms, you can be sure the media will be ready to provide comic relief.<\/p>\n<p>Like Piers Morgan&#8217;s reference to Aaron Alexis and his &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/09\/17\/ar-15-shotgun-did-cnn-let-noted-gun-expert-piers-morgan-write-its-chyron-text\/\">legally purchased AR15 shotgun<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or the NY Daily News (&#8220;Like MSNBC, Only In Print!&#8221;) <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/ny-daily-news-slams-made-for-murder-ar\">front page story <\/a>about the AR15 Alexis owned&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;even though it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2013\/09\/17\/video-piers-morgan-and-the-scourge-of-the-ar-15-shotgun-or-something\/\">not only didn&#8217;t he have one<\/a>, but didn&#8217;t &#8211; as\u00a0was reported yesterday\u00a0&#8211; steal one from one of the base police he murdered after all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Media.\u00a0 On Second Amendment issues, they are the real low-information voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever there&#8217;s a big story involving firearms, you can be sure the media will be ready to provide comic relief. Like Piers Morgan&#8217;s reference to Aaron Alexis and his &#8220;legally purchased AR15 shotgun&#8220;.\u00a0 Or the NY Daily News (&#8220;Like MSNBC, Only In Print!&#8221;) front page story about the AR15 Alexis owned&#8230; &#8230;even though it appears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38431","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=38431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38435,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38431\/revisions\/38435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}