{"id":86341,"date":"2023-10-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86341"},"modified":"2023-10-29T10:09:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T15:09:18","slug":"mitchs-journalism-school-101-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86341","title":{"rendered":"Mitch&#8217;s Journalism School 101, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I asked a question last week that no Twin Cities &#8220;journalist&#8221; can seem to being themselves to ask:  if food shelves are running short, what could the half billion dollars embezzled by DFL-affiliated non-profiteers have done to help things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I was in the middle of a brutal week of work last week, so I missed a few other questions that were, in hindsight, begging to be asked:<\/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\">Viral social media post highlights &#39;real needs&#39; at food banks. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OMTMoI07xX\">https:\/\/t.co\/OMTMoI07xX<\/a> Click the image to read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OMTMoI07xX\">https:\/\/t.co\/OMTMoI07xX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FOX 9 (@FOX9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOX9\/status\/1717379395143246027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The DFL tells us, relentlessly, that Minnesota&#8217;s economy is just <em>humming <\/em>along<\/strong>.  So &#8211; why is demand for food shelves do high?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Biden Administration tells us &#8220;Bidenomics&#8221; has the nation&#8217;s economic blender set to &#8220;puree&#8221;.  <\/strong>So all of us who are seeing evidence like this to the contrary &#8211; are we just believing our lying eyes?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>If we&#8217;re providing &#8220;free&#8221; breakfast and lunch to every PreK-12 student in the state, that should take an <em>immense <\/em> burden off the state&#8217;s food shelf system<\/strong>.  But it seems it&#8217;s not.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And the biggest, best question of all &#8211; <strong>In a state clogged with entitled, preening people with little tin &#8220;journalist&#8221; badges, why is a schnook blogger and talk show host from Saint Paul the only person asking these questions?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If the people of Minnesota were to start asking these questions for themselves, this would be a very different place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked a question last week that no Twin Cities &#8220;journalist&#8221; can seem to being themselves to ask: if food shelves are running short, what could the half billion dollars embezzled by DFL-affiliated non-profiteers have done to help things? Now, I was in the middle of a brutal week of work last week, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86341","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=86341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86342,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86341\/revisions\/86342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}