{"id":71776,"date":"2019-07-16T05:47:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T10:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71776"},"modified":"2019-07-16T06:31:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T11:31:32","slug":"the-knowledge-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71776","title":{"rendered":"The Knowledge Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Modern journalists are innumerate.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-lifted-271-million-people-out-of-poverty-in-10-years-un\/article28397694.ece\">The numbers in this article don&#8217;t work<\/a>.&nbsp; 270 million people world-wide were lifted out of poverty, 271 million of them in India, alone.&nbsp; Huh?<br>But far more importantly, HOW was it done?&nbsp; Taxing the rich?&nbsp; Foreign aid?&nbsp; Free college?&nbsp; Moving to the US?&nbsp; The article is conspicuously silent. <br>Perhaps . . . say it softly . . . capitalism works? <br>Joe Doakes<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Typos happen &#8211; especially now that &#8220;layers and layers of gatekeepers&#8221; have gone through fifteen years of layoffs are are now just a metaphorical doorbell camera.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But altering the fundemantal principles of most journos&#8217; lives?  That capitalism has, at best, yuge problems, just like their profs used to say?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck with that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern journalists are innumerate.&nbsp;&nbsp;The numbers in this article don&#8217;t work.&nbsp; 270 million people world-wide were lifted out of poverty, 271 million of them in India, alone.&nbsp; Huh?But far more importantly, HOW was it done?&nbsp; Taxing the rich?&nbsp; Foreign aid?&nbsp; Free college?&nbsp; Moving to the US?&nbsp; The article is conspicuously silent. Perhaps . . . say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71776","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=71776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71782,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71776\/revisions\/71782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}