{"id":64541,"date":"2017-09-06T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64541"},"modified":"2017-09-18T00:23:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T05:23:46","slug":"word-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64541","title":{"rendered":"Word Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, reeling from a decade of decay of the print publication biz and its own growing irrelevance, is on the market; Jann Wenner is looking for a buyer.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>NYTimes<\/em> notes (emphasis added by me):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"293\" data-total-count=\"588\">But the headwinds buffeting the publishing industry, and some costly strategic missteps, have steadily taken a financial toll on Rolling Stone, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/05\/business\/media\/rolling-stone-rape-story-case-guilty.html\">a <strong>botched story<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0three years ago about an unproven gang rape<\/strong> at the University of Virginia badly bruised the magazine\u2019s journalistic reputation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-para-count=\"293\" data-total-count=\"588\">&#8220;Botched&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"293\" data-total-count=\"588\">&#8220;Unproven&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p data-para-count=\"293\" data-total-count=\"588\">The actual word is &#8220;false&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling Stone, reeling from a decade of decay of the print publication biz and its own growing irrelevance, is on the market; Jann Wenner is looking for a buyer. The NYTimes notes (emphasis added by me): But the headwinds buffeting the publishing industry, and some costly strategic missteps, have steadily taken a financial toll on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,372,63,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-fake-news","category-lefty-alt-media","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64541","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=64541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64542,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64541\/revisions\/64542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}