I got an email from Minnesota Public Radio news the other day.<\/p>\n
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And it was a tough call.<\/p>\n
On the one hand, I generally think MPR News is above board.\u00a0 Generally.<\/p>\n
On the other, they have gotten funding for “gun violence” coverage from the Joyce Foundation which was, before Michael Bloomberg’s billions inundated the market, the biggest funder of criminal-safety groups in the US.\u00a0 And while I can’t show a cause-and-effect relationship, I have my suspicions that that funding caused MPR to make some bad editorial decisions<\/a>.\u00a0 (I’ve asked MPR News for comment – but they don’t talk on an official basis with plebeians).<\/p>\n I thought about it.<\/p>\n Then I read the website the email linked to (images of survey provided below; click on them to see full size).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And I just have to ask (although MPR never answers questions) = are you serious?<\/p>\n Did anyone actually answer?<\/p>\n I mean, I would – I own no guns, because they terrify me, and I’d never shoot another human being for any reason.<\/p>\n But given MPR’s close ties to the Metro DFL, I would just love to know what they were thinking – and what they thought shooters would think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “I accepted the results of an opinion poll taken in a country where it was illegal to hold certain opinions. You can imagine the poll-taking process: “Hello, Mr. Peasant, I’m an inquisitive and frightening stranger. God knows who I work for. Would you care to obstensibly support the dictatorship which controls every facet of your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control","category-media","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66237","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=66237"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66255,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66237\/revisions\/66255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/img_1903-150x150.jpg\")
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