{"id":69527,"date":"2018-12-19T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69527"},"modified":"2018-12-18T10:33:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T16:33:40","slug":"as-reported-in-the-budapest-star-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69527","title":{"rendered":"As Reported In The <i>Budapest Star\/Tribune<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On NPR the other morning, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/12\/18\/677691962\/in-hungary-thousands-of-demonstrators-protest-slave-law\">heard a story about Hungarian protests against a new overtime\u00a0 law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters complained to NPR&#8217;s reporter on the scene that the main broadcaster in Hungary &#8211; which is governed by a conservative, putatively &#8220;Trumpist&#8221; popular government led by Viktor Orban &#8211; is controlled by the state, and that all major private media is controlled by allies of the government.<\/p>\n<p>And I thought &#8220;Hmmmmm&#8221;, as I listened to NPR on the local Minnesota\u00a0<em>Public\u00a0<\/em>Radio station, and looked at the copy of the Star\/Tribune in the passenger seat of my car.<\/p>\n<p>But I continued listening.<\/p>\n<p>One of the protesters complained that the media didn&#8217;t accurately report the numbers of people at their demonstrations, when they bothered to report about the demonstrations at all.<\/p>\n<p>And I pondered for a moment, remembering when the media reported &#8220;hundreds&#8221; of attendees at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10134\">Tea Party rallies at the Capitol in 2009-2010<\/a>\u00a0 that drew closer to 7,000.<\/p>\n<p>And I thought &#8220;Huh.\u00a0 So there\u00a0<em>are\u00a0<\/em>examples of media bias that the mainstream American media will report on&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On NPR the other morning, I heard a story about Hungarian protests against a new overtime\u00a0 law. The protesters complained to NPR&#8217;s reporter on the scene that the main broadcaster in Hungary &#8211; which is governed by a conservative, putatively &#8220;Trumpist&#8221; popular government led by Viktor Orban &#8211; is controlled by the state, and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69527","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=69527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69530,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69527\/revisions\/69530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}