{"id":77504,"date":"2021-04-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77504"},"modified":"2021-07-14T14:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:31:58","slug":"this-is-what-screwed-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77504","title":{"rendered":"This Is What Screwed Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor Walz yesterday morning, as he got ready to head into the studio for his ritual toenail-painting with Esme Murphy:<\/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\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A free press is foundational to our democracy. Reporters worked tirelessly during this tumultuous year to keep Minnesotans informed.<br><br>I convened a meeting today with media and law enforcement to determine a better path forward to protect the journalists covering civil unrest.<\/p>&mdash; Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/1383539678704390149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever notice how the press never cares about civil rights being trashed until its <em>their <\/em>civil rights being trashed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s wrong, of course.  A press that holds power accountable is &#8220;foundational to democracy&#8221;.   So we&#8217;re screwed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way &#8211; not holding &#8220;emergency power&#8221; long after the emergency has passed is also &#8220;foundational to democracy&#8221;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Walz yesterday morning, as he got ready to head into the studio for his ritual toenail-painting with Esme Murphy: Ever notice how the press never cares about civil rights being trashed until its their civil rights being trashed? He&#8217;s wrong, of course. A press that holds power accountable is &#8220;foundational to democracy&#8221;. So we&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,320,255],"tags":[436],"class_list":["post-77504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-mndfl","category-the-racket","tag-esme-murphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77504","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=77504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77505,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77504\/revisions\/77505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}