{"id":73087,"date":"2020-01-15T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73087"},"modified":"2020-01-15T07:16:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:16:23","slug":"selective-indignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73087","title":{"rendered":"Selective Indignation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was listening to NPR’s “Fresh Air”, with Teri Gross – the most overrated interviewer in the history of radio, by the way, but I digress – talking<\/a> with the authors of a book, The Fixers: The Bottom-feeders, Crooked Lawyers , Gossipmongers, and Porn Stars Who Created the 45th President<\/em>.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interview – and, one presumes, the book – beats heavily on the “fake” media, in this case the National Enquirer (Call for Captain Obvious – you’ve been skipped directly to Lieutenant Colonel). The authors – a couple of MSMers putting out the obligatory book on “Why Trump” – riff hard on the atrocious standards, dubious ethics, and penchant for running with implausible stories and willingness to buy and bury real ones…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…at<\/em> The National Enquirer<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And boy, it sure sounds like the pro-Trump media works hard to shape the narrative! And a media that runs its preferred narrative in preference to the truth is an awful thing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But being radio, a one-way medium, I couldn’t ask the authors, or the terminally annoying Gross, about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n