{"id":7679,"date":"2010-01-05T07:54:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T12:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7679"},"modified":"2010-01-24T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T20:37:43","slug":"your-tax-dollars-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7679","title":{"rendered":"Your Tax Dollars At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know, I have always <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4195\">done my best<\/a> to distinguish the parts of public broadcasting that <em>do <\/em>make a credible effort at being &#8220;public&#8221; as opposed to &#8220;the pet project of a set of well-heeled constituencies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But most of the good news is here in Minnesota.\u00a0 National Public Radio is a depressing gulag of smug, preening, upper-middle-class, &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe anyone isn&#8217;t like us&#8221; liberalism.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence? From National &#8220;Public&#8221; Radio, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=120344047&amp;ps=cprs\">&#8216;Learn To Speak Tea Bag&#8217;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nope.\u00a0 No bias here at all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to get the point of view of some of my public radio friends on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know, I have always done my best to distinguish the parts of public broadcasting that do make a credible effort at being &#8220;public&#8221; as opposed to &#8220;the pet project of a set of well-heeled constituencies&#8221;. But most of the good news is here in Minnesota.\u00a0 National Public Radio is a depressing gulag of smug, preening, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679","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=7679"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7682,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7679\/revisions\/7682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}