{"id":26059,"date":"2012-02-07T04:55:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T10:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26059"},"modified":"2012-02-07T05:23:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T11:23:31","slug":"into-the-vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26059","title":{"rendered":"Into The Vortex"},"content":{"rendered":"

The management at the Strib <\/em>has apparently decided that even Lori Sturdevant’s grueling one-column-a-week schedule at the paper just isn’t enough. \u00a0Now, she’s got a blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And there’s another surprise; even Lori Sturdevant has\u00a0found a left-on-right attack that’s ruffled her feathers<\/a>; Rolling Stone’s <\/em>hit piece on Michele Bachmann (you expected any other kind) linking her to the gay teen suicides in Anoka County apparently even pushed her <\/em>too far:<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone magazine\u2019s Feb. 16 issue stretches farther than this Minnesota journalist would in an otherwise compelling article about the suicides of nine LGBT teens in the Anoka-Hennepin School District and the school \u201cneutrality\u201d policy that served them poorly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Am I being overly picky in asking “how far would <\/em>“this Minnesota journalist stretch to attack Michele Bachmann? \u00a0Or does Sturdevant need those “layers and layers of fact-checking and gate-keeping” more than we thought? \u00a0No matter; it’s a tangent, I know)<\/p>\n

The stretch is the story\u2019s attempt to link the suicides with U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, the area\u2019s three-term congresswoman and, until last month, a GOP presidential candidate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, Rolling Stone <\/em>has become the City Pages <\/em>of national magazines; both publications, once occasionally the home of some adequate and sometimes brilliant journalism, have turned into the Daily Kos <\/em>with band tour dates (or in the case of City Pages<\/em>,\u00a0the Strib <\/em>comment section with restaurant and music \u00a0reviews).<\/p>\n

Anyway – welcome to blogging, Lori! \u00a0And don’t let the avalanche of suck that is the Strib’s <\/em>comment section get you down. \u00a0It sure would do it for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The management at the Strib has apparently decided that even Lori Sturdevant’s grueling one-column-a-week schedule at the paper just isn’t enough. \u00a0Now, she’s got a blog. And there’s another surprise; even Lori Sturdevant has\u00a0found a left-on-right attack that’s ruffled her feathers; Rolling Stone’s hit piece on Michele Bachmann (you expected any other kind) linking her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-26059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-mn-cd6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26061,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26059\/revisions\/26061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}