{"id":79651,"date":"2021-10-04T07:56:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79651"},"modified":"2021-10-04T07:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:56:31","slug":"what-to-do-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79651","title":{"rendered":"What To Do?  What&#8230;To&#8230;Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CBS News tales a break from its saturation coverage of the murder of Gabby Petito to bring up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/gabby-petito-keeshae-jacobs-mary-johnson-alicia-navarro-missing-people\/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=134213991\">elephant in the media room<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The discrepancy is even greater among missing women and girls. From January 1 to September 27, the number of Black, Hispanic, American Indian\/Alaska Native and Hawaiian\/Pacific Islander women missing were a greater proportion of cases than their respective demographics nationwide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Hm.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If only there were institutions, with satellites and transmitters and printing presses and cable systems and huge websites, staffed by, I dunno, a pseudo-monastic order of self-appointed high priests of information-relaying, to deal with this imbalance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News tales a break from its saturation coverage of the murder of Gabby Petito to bring up the elephant in the media room: The discrepancy is even greater among missing women and girls. From January 1 to September 27, the number of Black, Hispanic, American Indian\/Alaska Native and Hawaiian\/Pacific Islander women missing were a [&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-79651","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\/79651","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=79651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79653,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79651\/revisions\/79653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}