{"id":62,"date":"2004-01-31T02:08:24","date_gmt":"2004-01-30T17:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/01\/31\/journalistic-bias\/"},"modified":"2005-07-12T22:02:39","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T13:02:39","slug":"journalistic-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/01\/31\/journalistic-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalistic Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2004\/01\/bad_habits.html\">text<\/a> points out the increasingly frequent habit with major media outlets of turning provable facts into mere &#8220;quotations&#8221; coming from the mouth of political opponents&#8230; For example, the fact that the US budget has gone from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/ALLPOLITICS\/stories\/1999\/01\/06\/budget.surplus.02\/\">massively in excess<\/a> less than four years ago to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/3377795.stm\">one of the biggest deficit in US history<\/a>, is no longer a fact backed by hard cold <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/omb\/budget\/fy2004\/\">official numbers<\/a>: It is a &#8220;charge&#8221; made by political opponents:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The forecast comes as Democrats campaigning to run against President Bush charge that he has turned a surplus into a deficit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"source\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/today\/0127-04deficitp-280203.html\">USA today<\/a> quoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2004\/01\/bad_habits.html\">Slacktivist<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The all too common story of how newspapers can distort objective information under the dubious pretense of &#8220;keeping viewpoints balanced&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This interesting text points out the increasingly frequent habit with major media outlets of turning provable facts into mere &#8220;quotations&#8221; coming from the mouth of political opponents&#8230; For example, the fact that the US budget has gone from massively in excess less than four years ago to one of the biggest deficit in US history, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-ranting","category-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}