{"id":84872,"date":"2023-04-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84872"},"modified":"2023-04-06T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T18:09:40","slug":"one-reason-i-love-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84872","title":{"rendered":"One Reason I Love Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>He called out America&#8217;s <em>de facto <\/em>Ministry of Information for what it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84873\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1-500x281.png 500w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Big Media is rallying around their own &#8211; as they always do:<\/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\">Twitter has labeled National Public Radio as &#39;&#39;state-affiliated media&#39;&#39; on the social media site, a move some worried Wednesday could undermine public confidence in the news organization. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hjx7QDZoNG\">https:\/\/t.co\/Hjx7QDZoNG<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StarTribune\/status\/1643826362480996353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Could undermine confidence&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NPR hosts actively pine for Marxism.  They plot, in the open on the air, for ways to censor dissident media, not to mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61252\">using media to direct politics<\/a> in their desired direction.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone who sees the need for an impartial media that holds <em>all <\/em>government accountable <em>should <\/em>feel no confidence in NPR &#8211; Big Left&#8217;s PR shop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;d be a good start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE : By the way &#8211; NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Fact check&#8221; of Twitter sniffs that the network only gets around 1% of its budget from government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s <em>technically <\/em>true.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the figure doesn&#8217;t count:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Subsidies and other grants from many other levels of government that are turned into program subscription fees that go&#8230;to NPR. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Perigovernmental and pseudogovernmental bodies &#8211; the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, and various foundations, whose goals are in lock step with big government.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With <em>that <\/em>swag <em>honestly <\/em>counted, the total is by some counts well into the 30-40% range.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qualifies as state media in my book. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He called out America&#8217;s de facto Ministry of Information for what it is: Big Media is rallying around their own &#8211; as they always do: &#8220;Could undermine confidence&#8221; NPR hosts actively pine for Marxism. They plot, in the open on the air, for ways to censor dissident media, not to mention using media to direct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,321,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-big-left","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84872","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=84872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84877,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84872\/revisions\/84877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}