{"id":73236,"date":"2020-02-04T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73236"},"modified":"2020-02-04T09:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T15:55:34","slug":"minnesota-department-of-predictive-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73236","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Department Of Predictive &#8220;Journalism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An MPR News tweet.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 9:30.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AM.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly 12 hours <em>before <\/em>the State of the Union address. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Trump is prone to exaggeration and sometimes fiction. If his past speeches to Congress are prologue, buyer beware. An early fact check of some subjects likely to come up in his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StateOfTheUnion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StateOfTheUnion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nWhrY2Q63w\">https:\/\/t.co\/nWhrY2Q63w<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MPR News (@MPRnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MPRnews\/status\/1224716994378813446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; &#8220;fact-checking&#8221; the putative reputation of the speaker, long before the speech actually happens? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s not &#8220;fact-checking&#8221;.  That&#8217;s not even &#8220;journalism&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s public relations for the Democratic Party. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An MPR News tweet. From 9:30. AM. Nearly 12 hours before the State of the Union address. So &#8211; &#8220;fact-checking&#8221; the putative reputation of the speaker, long before the speech actually happens? That&#8217;s not &#8220;fact-checking&#8221;. That&#8217;s not even &#8220;journalism&#8221;. That&#8217;s public relations for the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73236","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=73236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73237,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73236\/revisions\/73237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}