{"id":73760,"date":"2020-04-06T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73760"},"modified":"2020-04-06T06:36:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T11:36:04","slug":"agenda%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73760","title":{"rendered":"Agenda\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Maybe I&#8217;m missing them, but doesn&#8217;t it seem as if the media is curiously short of stories on how the shutdown is affecting the Little People? The joke headline is &#8220;World Ends, Women and Minorities Hardest Hit.&#8221;<\/p><p>As the economy shuts down, aren&#8217;t a lot of those people hurting? I would wager the number of out-of-work women waitresses vastly exceeds the number of men waitresses. How come we&#8217;re not hearing about those people?<\/p><p>I noticed it again this morning. I had to run up to the office for a couple of things that could not be done remotely. Off-ramp bums are still out there, but there&#8217;s virtually no traffic and no one&#8217;s willing to roll down a window to get within six feet of them. They&#8217;ve got to be hurting, and they&#8217;re already homeless. Where&#8217;s the media love for them?<\/p><p>When the media abandons its normal inclinations in favor of reporting only stories about the Bad Orange Man, it makes me suspect a political agenda.<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And to think that people  &#8211; the ones who didn&#8217;t think it was a joke to begin with &#8211; think that the shutting down of &#8220;Journo-List&#8221; ended media collusion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I&#8217;m missing them, but doesn&#8217;t it seem as if the media is curiously short of stories on how the shutdown is affecting the Little People? The joke headline is &#8220;World Ends, Women and Minorities Hardest Hit.&#8221; As the economy shuts down, aren&#8217;t a lot of those people hurting? I would wager the number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73760","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=73760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73768,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73760\/revisions\/73768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}