{"id":66043,"date":"2018-02-22T06:21:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66043"},"modified":"2019-10-30T07:03:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:03:54","slug":"66043","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66043","title":{"rendered":"The Gray Wasteland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/02\/another-misfire-at-the-new-york-times\/?utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=Williamson\">sums up a vast expanse of &#8220;suck&#8221; in re the\u00a0<em>NYTimes&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>coverage of gun issues<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>he\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0is uniquely bad on the subject of firearms. There are two ways to understand that sentence, and both apply: Among major news publications, the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>regularly exhibits an unparalleled level of illiteracy on the subject of firearms, and it exhibits comparable illiteracy on practically no other subject. Even on such self-acknowledged weak spots as American religion, the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0rarely sinks to the level of outright stupidity that characterizes its coverage of firearms and related crimes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s just the introduction.\u00a0 It gets worse.\u00a0 Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson sums up a vast expanse of &#8220;suck&#8221; in re the\u00a0NYTimes&#8217;\u00a0coverage of gun issues: he\u00a0New York Times\u00a0is uniquely bad on the subject of firearms. There are two ways to understand that sentence, and both apply: Among major news publications, the\u00a0Timesregularly exhibits an unparalleled level of illiteracy on the subject of firearms, and it exhibits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,130],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-66043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control","category-tc-media-bias","tag-kevin-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66043","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=66043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66045,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66043\/revisions\/66045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}