{"id":82996,"date":"2022-08-01T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82996"},"modified":"2022-08-01T09:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T14:43:04","slug":"misinformation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82996","title":{"rendered":"Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Star Tribune <\/em>is complaining about “misinformation” <\/a>today. You may hit a paywall (I did), and i”m not giving them any money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sort of unrelated aside: today is the fifteenth anniversary of the collapse<\/a> of the 35W River Bridge, in downtown Minneapolis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An event which prompted the most obscene tidal wave of concentrated disinformation I can recall – mostly, former Strib <\/em>“Senior Columnist”, the late Nick Coleman, who beclowned his newspaper in print and on national TV by blaming Governor Pawlenty<\/a>, and tax-accountability groups like David Strom’s “Taxpayers League”, for the collapse before the last of the bodies were cold. It was the most craven display of “journalistic” abuse on the local level, ever<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the intervening years, the Strib’s <\/em>fortunes have fared about as well as the late bridge. The Strib managed to do some good reporting<\/a> on the story – but along with the photos and the survivor interviews, it’s hard to separate that story from Nick Coleman on MSNBC, bellowing bug-eyed at the camera about Tim Pawlenty’s responsibilty…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…for an engineering mistake made in 1967. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bridge is back. The Strib <\/em>is still here, technically. And “misinformation” has become an industry that’d boggle Nick Coleman’s mind from the great beyond. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Star Tribune is complaining about “misinformation” today. You may hit a paywall (I did), and i”m not giving them any money. Sort of unrelated aside: today is the fifteenth anniversary of the collapse of the 35W River Bridge, in downtown Minneapolis. An event which prompted the most obscene tidal wave of concentrated disinformation I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82996","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=82996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82997,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82996\/revisions\/82997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}