{"id":76396,"date":"2021-01-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76396"},"modified":"2021-01-11T07:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T13:15:27","slug":"ricardo-lopez-middle-school-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76396","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Lopez:   Middle School Reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ricardo Lopez writes for &#8220;MN Reformer&#8221;, which is a website in the tradition of the old &#8220;MN Monitor&#8221; &#8211; basically a propaganda site funded by progressive plutocrats with deep pockets, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/rljourno\/status\/1347590798381101056\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Further proof that not only the Democratic party, but its pet media (and the <em>Reformer <\/em>is nothing but a paid PR lapdog for Ken Marti) can assume that their audience isn&#8217;t an especially critical bunch of thinkers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because, say what you will about Miller&#8217;s letter, logically or epidemiologically, but other than choosing the word &#8220;Exchange&#8221; over the more apposite &#8220;Exposure&#8221;, he got the mechanics of how <em>we currently know <\/em>Covid is spread pretty right.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took Lopez&#8217;s apparently eighth-grade sense of discernment to read &#8220;sexual transmission&#8221; into a choice of words that, otherwise, got things basically correct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in a world where Samantha Bee is among the left&#8217;s top journalists, it doesn&#8217;t <em>not <\/em>make sense that someone like Lopez would do&#8230;well, this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricardo Lopez writes for &#8220;MN Reformer&#8221;, which is a website in the tradition of the old &#8220;MN Monitor&#8221; &#8211; basically a propaganda site funded by progressive plutocrats with deep pockets, Further proof that not only the Democratic party, but its pet media (and the Reformer is nothing but a paid PR lapdog for Ken Marti) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,321,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-big-left","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76396","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=76396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76399,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76396\/revisions\/76399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}