{"id":42209,"date":"2014-03-05T09:50:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42209"},"modified":"2014-03-05T09:50:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:50:03","slug":"they-all-mean-the-same-thing-eventually-dont-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42209","title":{"rendered":"They All Mean The Same Thing Eventually, Don’t They?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Remember:\u00a0 the reason the mainstream media is better than all of us bumptious alt-media people is that they have layers and layers of gatekeepers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, don’t get me wrong; I read\u00a0h this AP piece in the Strib<\/em>, about United Airlines cracking down on people hauling refrigerator-sized “carry-on” bags onto their flights<\/a>, and went “yay”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But this sentence here stuck in my craw:<\/p>\n

It has nothing to do with revenue, [United spokesman Rahsaan\u00a0Johnson] said, adding that one non-complaint bag takes up the same space as two complaint ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One suspects a bag that generates no “complaints” would take up much less than half the space of two bags that generate complaints.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Unless the word they were looking for was “compliant”.\u00a0\u00a0 Which is a whole different word – indeed, geometrically opposite in this context.\u00a0<\/p>\n

English in America today: I’m afraid a generation of hasty online spelling means were loosing the standard’s of are language.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Layers.\u00a0 Of Gatekeepers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Remember:\u00a0 the reason the mainstream media is better than all of us bumptious alt-media people is that they have layers and layers of gatekeepers.\u00a0 Now, don’t get me wrong; I read\u00a0h this AP piece in the Strib, about United Airlines cracking down on people hauling refrigerator-sized “carry-on” bags onto their flights, and went “yay”.\u00a0 But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42209","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=42209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42219,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42209\/revisions\/42219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}