{"id":82809,"date":"2022-07-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82809"},"modified":"2022-07-15T08:08:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T13:08:44","slug":"just-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82809","title":{"rendered":"Just The News!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The “MN Reformer<\/em>” is yet another effort to start a news organization by progressive plutocrats with deep pockets – because after the Minnesota Monitor<\/em>, the Minnesota Independent<\/em> and MNPost<\/em>, certainly the fourth time’s the charm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They’ve actually done some decent reporting over the last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emphasis on “in the last year” – when there wasn’t an election on the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Reformer<\/em> ran an op-ed by Dr. Hannah Lichtsinn<\/a> calling for the state medical authorities to revoke Dr. Scott Jensen’s medical license. Jensen is, by the way, the GOP candidate for Governor. He’s also been an out-front skeptic of our state’s hamfisted, tyrannical public health response. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither the op-ed, the Reformer’s<\/em> bio-blurb<\/a> about Dr. Lichtsinn, nor any of the Reformer’s<\/em> social media traffic makes any mention of any political bent that she might have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anecdotally – and I’m the one with the anecdote, here – Dr. Lichtsinn has been pretty much the polar opposite of Jensen; on social media, she was a positively strident proponent of lockdowns, mandates of every kind, and draconian enforcement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the reason for that is, she’s every bit as much a Democrat activist with portfolio as she is a doctor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’d be fair to say that, when not playing nice and empirical in op-eds intended to be marketed to the unconvinced center, she’s a “groaningly strident” progressive<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apparently the Reformer didn’t think the reader needed to know that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is why the Reformer<\/em> – unlike the MN Monitor<\/em> and the MN Independent<\/em> before it – bothered with all that “decent reporting” last year; to put up a veneer of legitimacy around what was intended to be yet another DFL PR operation during the 2022 campaign season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The “MN Reformer” is yet another effort to start a news organization by progressive plutocrats with deep pockets – because after the Minnesota Monitor, the Minnesota Independent and MNPost, certainly the fourth time’s the charm. They’ve actually done some decent reporting over the last year. Emphasis on “in the last year” – when there wasn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,323,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-big-leftymoney","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82809","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=82809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82812,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82809\/revisions\/82812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}