{"id":80026,"date":"2021-11-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80026"},"modified":"2021-11-28T08:15:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T14:15:47","slug":"80026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80026","title":{"rendered":"Diagosis: Malpractice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My blogfather from nearly 20 years ago, Andrew Sullivan, <a href=\"tps:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/when-all-the-media-narratives-collapse-650\">on the many, many ways modern media fails Democracy<\/a> in its slavish service to the left&#8217;s narrative.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to come up with a single pullquote, but I&#8217;ll run with this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I still rely on the MSM for so much. I still read the NYT first thing in the morning. I don\u2019t&nbsp;<em>want<\/em>&nbsp;to feel as if everything I read is basically tilted through wish-fulfillment, narrative-proving, and ideology. But with this kind of record, how can I not?&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We need facts and objectivity more than ever. Trump showed that. What we got in the MSM was an over-reaction, a reflexive overreach to make the news fit the broader political fight. This is humanly understandable. It is professionally unacceptable. And someone has got to stop it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a hunch most Americans won&#8217;t know the value of a conscientiously neutral media until the inevitable results of the lack of one become truly apparent&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;more than they are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My blogfather from nearly 20 years ago, Andrew Sullivan, on the many, many ways modern media fails Democracy in its slavish service to the left&#8217;s narrative. It&#8217;s hard to come up with a single pullquote, but I&#8217;ll run with this: I still rely on the MSM for so much. I still read the NYT first [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80026","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=80026"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80148,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80026\/revisions\/80148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}