{"id":72718,"date":"2019-12-02T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72718"},"modified":"2019-12-02T06:30:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T12:30:15","slug":"and-to-think-conservatives-believe-big-media-writes-stories-about-conservative-republican-people-and-events-long-beforehand-because-theyre-all-writing-to-a-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72718","title":{"rendered":"And To Think Conservatives Believe Big Media Writes Stories About Conservative \/ Republican People And Events Long Beforehand, Because They&#8217;re All Writing To A Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jessica Kwong, progressive stenographer at former magazine &#8220;Newsweek&#8221;, on Donald Trump&#8217;s thanksgiving:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump headed to Afghanistan to surprise U.S. troops on Thanksgiving <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f7Xeqz1ZGQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/f7Xeqz1ZGQ<\/a> Deleting this tweet because it was written before knowing about the president\u2019s surprise visit to Afghanistan-an honest mistake. Story has already been updated, as shown in the screenshot. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g9CfPaV2kQ\">pic.twitter.com\/g9CfPaV2kQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jessica Kwong (@JessicaGKwong) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessicaGKwong\/status\/1200208471599321089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;it was written before knowing about the president\u2019s surprise visit to Afghanistan-an honest mistake&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, <em>pre-written<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Big Media aren&#8217;t &#8220;the enemy of the people&#8221;.   They&#8217;re worse; after assuming the mantle of &#8220;guardian of democracy&#8221; (which, we are told, without their ministrations would &#8220;die in darkness&#8221;), they are doing something very, very different.  They&#8217;re worse than an enemy; they are betraying a trust &#8211; however misbegotten.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are swindling the people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE:  And apparently the once-mighty <em>Newsweek <\/em><strong>can <\/strong>be shamed into decency; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/472546-newsweek-reporter-fired-after-inaccurate-story-about-trumps-thanksgiving\">Kwong has been fired<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;ll be off the beach soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Kwong, progressive stenographer at former magazine &#8220;Newsweek&#8221;, on Donald Trump&#8217;s thanksgiving: &#8220;it was written before knowing about the president\u2019s surprise visit to Afghanistan-an honest mistake&#8221; In other words, pre-written. The Big Media aren&#8217;t &#8220;the enemy of the people&#8221;. They&#8217;re worse; after assuming the mantle of &#8220;guardian of democracy&#8221; (which, we are told, without their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,63,4,130,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-lefty-alt-media","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72718","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=72718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72742,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72718\/revisions\/72742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}