{"id":87211,"date":"2024-03-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87211"},"modified":"2024-03-20T10:25:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T15:25:54","slug":"an-analogy-if-i-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87211","title":{"rendered":"An Analogy, If I May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Jacobin&#8221; is an overtly socialist media site &#8211; moreso than NPR&#8217;s &#8220;On The Media&#8221;, even.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And just as the Democrat Socialists of America have been creeping into dominance in blue-city Democrat politics, their sphere of influence appears to be swelling as the media&#8217;s fortunes wane and &#8220;Journalists&#8221; leftist ideological motivation waxes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here they say, to paraphrase what the kids say these days, &#8220;the not quiet-at-all part out even louder:<\/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\">Mass layoffs are tearing through US media. To preserve a functioning media ecosystem, we need 3 things: immediate aid to struggling journalists, public subsidies to smaller news outlets, and eventually industry transformation into a publicly funded system.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S7psMrafDY\">https:\/\/t.co\/S7psMrafDY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jacobin (@jacobin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobin\/status\/1770238960113258755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure it has a chance of happening in the wild &#8211; but if there&#8217;s anything that&#8217;ll make normies hate the media even more than we already do, &#8220;making it an organ of the state it&#8217;s supposed to check and balance&#8221; would certainly do it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jacobin&#8221; is an overtly socialist media site &#8211; moreso than NPR&#8217;s &#8220;On The Media&#8221;, even. And just as the Democrat Socialists of America have been creeping into dominance in blue-city Democrat politics, their sphere of influence appears to be swelling as the media&#8217;s fortunes wane and &#8220;Journalists&#8221; leftist ideological motivation waxes. And here they say, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87211","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=87211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87212,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87211\/revisions\/87212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}