{"id":72342,"date":"2019-10-08T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72342"},"modified":"2019-10-08T09:52:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T14:52:50","slug":"the-12th-commandment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72342","title":{"rendered":"The 12th Commandment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s an oldie but a goodie.   And as we head toward another election sure to be driven by Big Left&#8217;s narratives and Trump&#8217;s responses to them, this bit here is worth committing to memory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/treacher_on_journalism_10-11-17-1-600x346.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Courtesy Instapundit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Journalism is always about &#8220;asking the questions that matter&#8221; &#8211; where &#8220;matter&#8221; in this case means &#8220;furthers the narrative&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an oldie but a goodie. And as we head toward another election sure to be driven by Big Left&#8217;s narratives and Trump&#8217;s responses to them, this bit here is worth committing to memory: Journalism is always about &#8220;asking the questions that matter&#8221; &#8211; where &#8220;matter&#8221; in this case means &#8220;furthers the narrative&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-leftymoney","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72342","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=72342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72343,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72342\/revisions\/72343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}