{"id":72906,"date":"2019-12-31T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72906"},"modified":"2019-12-29T22:07:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T04:07:36","slug":"unreliable-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72906","title":{"rendered":"Unreliable Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I used to ask Twin Cities media figures why they kept taking the likes of Heather Martens and the &#8220;Reverend&#8221; Nancy Nord Bence seriously, treating them as legitimate sources on the news, when the leading intellectual lights of Minnesota&#8217;s gun control movement burned them so consistently on actual fact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a national level, <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2019\/12\/again-we-ask-why-isnt-rachel-maddow-treated-like-other-crazy-conspiracy-theorists\/\">the same question goes<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to ask Twin Cities media figures why they kept taking the likes of Heather Martens and the &#8220;Reverend&#8221; Nancy Nord Bence seriously, treating them as legitimate sources on the news, when the leading intellectual lights of Minnesota&#8217;s gun control movement burned them so consistently on actual fact. On a national level, the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,321,4,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-big-left","category-media","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72906","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=72906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72928,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72906\/revisions\/72928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}