{"id":63323,"date":"2017-06-01T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63323"},"modified":"2017-05-31T08:14:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T13:14:07","slug":"its-not-true-socia-well-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63323","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s Not <i>True<\/i> Socia&#8230;Well, You Know&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media are barely covering the political and human catastrophe unfolding in Venezuela:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Out of approximately 50,000 total evening news stories on ABC, CBS and NBC combined in the last four years, just 25 have covered the ongoing crisis\u00a0in socialist Venezuela, according to a Media Research Center study published Tuesday&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and they\u00a0<em>certainly\u00a0<\/em>aren&#8217;t slopping the blame over to&#8230;well&#8230;you know&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;out of the 50,000 total evening news stories on the three networks, just 25 covered Venezuela, and only seven mentioned \u201c<strong>socialism<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For many journos, it&#8217;s the &#8220;ideal&#8221; they were raised to revere (minus all the misery and bloodshed;<\/p>\n<p>And for others ? Free markets are a lot harder to cover than planned ones; covering a free market would involve learning, rather than talking with highly-placed planning officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media are barely covering the political and human catastrophe unfolding in Venezuela: Out of approximately 50,000 total evening news stories on ABC, CBS and NBC combined in the last four years, just 25 have covered the ongoing crisis\u00a0in socialist Venezuela, according to a Media Research Center study published Tuesday&#8230;. &#8230;and they\u00a0certainly\u00a0aren&#8217;t slopping the blame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63323","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=63323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63324,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63323\/revisions\/63324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}