{"id":73153,"date":"2020-01-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73153"},"modified":"2020-01-22T17:55:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T23:55:14","slug":"fake-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73153","title":{"rendered":"Fake Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>The success of the <em>Babylon Bee <\/em>has apparently caused the mainstream media to try to horn in on the &#8220;Real-sounding fake news&#8221; thing, without quite getting what &#8220;satire&#8221; is.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CNN &#8220;reporter&#8221; Joe Lockhart on Twitter yesterday (via Hugh Hewitt, who&#8217;s noted the &#8220;Retweets&#8221; the &#8220;Reporter&#8221; got. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EO6rawFWsAIDfFl?format=png&amp;name=900x900\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Moments later:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/EO6rawpW4AIOq0d?format=png&amp;name=900x900\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You just know that TV stations, local NPR affiliates and newspapers around the country are going to run the former and ignore the latter. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The success of the Babylon Bee has apparently caused the mainstream media to try to horn in on the &#8220;Real-sounding fake news&#8221; thing, without quite getting what &#8220;satire&#8221; is. CNN &#8220;reporter&#8221; Joe Lockhart on Twitter yesterday (via Hugh Hewitt, who&#8217;s noted the &#8220;Retweets&#8221; the &#8220;Reporter&#8221; got. Moments later: You just know that TV stations, local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73153","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=73153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73154,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73153\/revisions\/73154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}