{"id":72648,"date":"2019-11-20T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72648"},"modified":"2019-11-19T11:06:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T17:06:05","slug":"question-for-the-hive-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72648","title":{"rendered":"We Need A Word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We need to have a word to convey the most commonly-used idea in conservative media criticism.  The idea, to wit, is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Can you imagine what the media would do if a Republican had done something this stupid?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is, of course, one of the most evergreen concepts in media criticism &#8211; the notion that if it weren&#8217;t for double-standards, the media would have no standards at all when covering Democrats.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Bend mayor and current media flavor of the month Pete &#8220;No, I&#8217;m Not Beto O&#8217;Rourke&#8221; Buttigieg&#8217;s campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/kenyan-woman-featured-in-pete-buttigieg-ad-for-frederick-douglass-plan-for-black-america\">used stock photos of Kenyans in publicizing their policies for black Americans<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>[A reporter for The Intercept] tweeted that the public relations firm tasked with creating Buttigieg\u2019s campaign material had simply taken a stock photo without checking the origin of the subject. \u201cOn top of everything else, the Buttigieg campaign used a stock photo from Kenya to promote its Frederick Douglass Plan for Black America,\u201d Grim wrote on Twitter, adding, \u201cThe woman in the photo reached out to me very confused.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Using non-American black people in photos (&#8220;hey, they all look the same!&#8221;) the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/it-was-alarming-black-leaders-claim-buttigieg-misled-voters-about-douglass-plan-for-black-america\">same week as he used names of black endorsers who&#8217;d not endorsed him<\/a>?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet the story is getting no coverage outside the conservative media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And saying &#8220;Can you imagine if a Republican did this?&#8221; is time-consuming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need a word, or at least a snappy phrase. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need to have a word to convey the most commonly-used idea in conservative media criticism. The idea, to wit, is: Can you imagine what the media would do if a Republican had done something this stupid? It is, of course, one of the most evergreen concepts in media criticism &#8211; the notion that if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72648","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=72648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72662,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72648\/revisions\/72662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}