{"id":68446,"date":"2018-11-13T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68446"},"modified":"2018-11-12T23:44:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T05:44:51","slug":"the-club-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68446","title":{"rendered":"The Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart &#8211; the former TV host, not the former Twin Cities blogger &#8211; has a few words for the media &#8211; and they&#8217;re mighty close to the words I have for them, as luck would have it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/trump-beats-media-by-using-their-own-narcissism-against-them-ex-daily-show-host-jon-stewart-says.amp?__twitter_impression=true\">Stewart calls them narcissists<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll stick with &#8220;whiners&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amanpour pushed back against Stewart\u2019s suggestion, saying journalists react to Trump\u2019s attacks this way because it\u2019s \u201chard for us to be dispassionate when words from the White House are aggressive against us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou\u2019re not used to it,\u201d Stewart replied, saying journalists should keep in mind the other struggling communities in U.S. before making the fight all about themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThink of the communities of color, think of Muslims, think of the black community. When journalists rise to this outrage of \u2018How dare you say that about us,&#8217; think of the lives that they\u2019ve been leading under this and what they\u2019ve been put under,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem with the media in recent years is their mission has morphed to &#8220;Afflicting those who are comfortable afflicting the media, and comforting those who comfort the media&#8217;s afflictors&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart &#8211; the former TV host, not the former Twin Cities blogger &#8211; has a few words for the media &#8211; and they&#8217;re mighty close to the words I have for them, as luck would have it. Stewart calls them narcissists.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll stick with &#8220;whiners&#8221;: Amanpour pushed back against Stewart\u2019s suggestion, saying journalists react [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68446","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=68446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68544,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68446\/revisions\/68544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}