{"id":49957,"date":"2014-12-16T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49957"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:03:50","slug":"layers-and-layers-of-fact-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49957","title":{"rendered":"Layers And Layers Of Fact-Checkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ve assumed most mainstream media is filtered through a statist lens for decades, now, there was a time I assumed that news organizations &#8211; made up of reporters like the ones I used to work with and, occasionally, was &#8211; would, if they bothered to cover a story at all (because who needs coverage of the IRS scandal, or Mark Dayton&#8217;s mental state, after all?)\u00a0at least endeavor to get the basic facts right.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not even the whole &#8220;are the facts of a highly-charged story about a contentious issue correct&#8221;, like <em>Rolling Stone&#8217;s <\/em>rapidly-unravelling UVA rape story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No, little things &#8211; like &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2014\/12\/exclusive-new-york-mags-boy-genius-investor-made-it-all-up\/\">does the story actually exist<\/a>&#8220;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ve assumed most mainstream media is filtered through a statist lens for decades, now, there was a time I assumed that news organizations &#8211; made up of reporters like the ones I used to work with and, occasionally, was &#8211; would, if they bothered to cover a story at all (because who needs coverage [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49957","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=49957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49959,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49957\/revisions\/49959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}