Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As my mind wanders, it links unrelated ideas.\u00a0 For example:\u00a0<\/p>
How deadly is Covid?\u00a0 How many people died OF Covid, WITH Covid, or merely DURING the Covid pandemic?\u00a0 It makes a huge difference but the media glosses over the distinction all the time.<\/p>
Similarly, Miami Beach declared a Spring Break curfew\u00a0because of a shooting<\/a>, and a Wal-Mart got trashed by “Spring Break Youths.<\/a>”\u00a0 Except there is a striking lack of logo sportswear in the videos.\u00a0 Are we certain these are UCLA students who brought their pistols to town for a shootout during Spring Break?\u00a0 Are we certain those Walmart yutes are students from Harvard and Yale?\u00a0 Could they be locals causing trouble DURING Spring Break? It makes a difference but the media glosses right over it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>
Blaming the wrong people leads to punishing the wrong people.\u00a0\u00a0 How can we make good decisions if the media gives us bad information? And that links to Ukraine, and gun control, and FBI racial crime statistics, and inflation, and . . . .<\/p>
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
If people can’t trust the institutions that make self-government sustainable, what do they think the inevitable end result is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: As my mind wanders, it links unrelated ideas.\u00a0 For example:\u00a0 How deadly is Covid?\u00a0 How many people died OF Covid, WITH Covid, or merely DURING the Covid pandemic?\u00a0 It makes a huge difference but the media glosses over the distinction all the time. Similarly, Miami Beach declared a Spring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81407","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=81407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81408,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81407\/revisions\/81408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}