{"id":62764,"date":"2017-04-17T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62764"},"modified":"2017-04-15T15:27:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T20:27:35","slug":"layers-and-layers-of-gatekeepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62764","title":{"rendered":"Layers And Layers Of Gatekeepers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lapse in fact-checking among &#8220;legitimate&#8221; mainstream media over the weekend caused, by itself, a radical ratcheting up of tensions on the Korean Peninsula:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As expected &#8211; and feared &#8211; during the annual &#8220;Day of the Sun&#8221; celebration parade (celebrating the birth of the nation&#8217;s founder), Bloomberg blasted a headline that Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that North Korea has fired a projectile.<\/p>\n<p>NORTH KOREA FIRES PROJECTILE, MEDIA SAYS: XINHUA<br \/>\nOn its website, Bloomberg immediately picked up the story, and ran with &#8220;North Korea Fires Projectile Media, Says Xinhua&#8221; (at a url which still reads: &#8220;https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-04-15\/north-korea-fires-projectile-media-says-xinhua&#8221;)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But there was no launch.\u00a0 Just an appearance at a parade (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, it appears that the headline scanning [algorithms] made a collosal error, and that Xinhua interpreted events quite incorrectly as it was, as CBC and Reuters reports, the <strong>appearance<\/strong> of a new submarine-launched missile at the parade for the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Layers.\u00a0 And. Layers.\u00a0 Of.\u00a0 Gatekeepers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lapse in fact-checking among &#8220;legitimate&#8221; mainstream media over the weekend caused, by itself, a radical ratcheting up of tensions on the Korean Peninsula: As expected &#8211; and feared &#8211; during the annual &#8220;Day of the Sun&#8221; celebration parade (celebrating the birth of the nation&#8217;s founder), Bloomberg blasted a headline that Chinese news agency Xinhua reported [&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-62764","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\/62764","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=62764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62765,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62764\/revisions\/62765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}