{"id":77790,"date":"2021-05-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77790"},"modified":"2021-05-07T11:12:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T16:12:05","slug":"to-journalism-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77790","title":{"rendered":"To Journalism.  And Beyond!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve repeatedly said that satire &#8211; the Babylon Bee, the Onion, of course Betg&#8217;s Law, and of course Titania McGrath, among a few others &#8211; are the real journalism of the age. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McGrath [1] proves it with this Twitter thread:<\/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\">IMPORTANT THREAD \ud83e\uddf5\ud83d\udc47<br><br>Many people scoff at my progressive ideas and predictions.<br><br>But eventually, they *always* come true.<br><br>So I thought I\u2019d start compiling a list of every time I was ahead of the curve&#8230;<\/p>&mdash; Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TitaniaMcGrath\/status\/1339977959508226048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s really uncanny; satire exposes our reality better than NPR and <em>Sixty MInutes<\/em>, combined, have in decades.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve repeatedly said that satire &#8211; the Babylon Bee, the Onion, of course Betg&#8217;s Law, and of course Titania McGrath, among a few others &#8211; are the real journalism of the age. McGrath [1] proves it with this Twitter thread: It&#8217;s really uncanny; satire exposes our reality better than NPR and Sixty MInutes, combined, have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77790","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=77790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77791,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77790\/revisions\/77791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}