{"id":90444,"date":"2013-05-24T04:45:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T10:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90444"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:41:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:41:42","slug":"the-great-liberal-death-wish-london-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=90444","title":{"rendered":"The Great Liberal Death Wish, London Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2013\/05\/the-great-liberal-death-wish-london-edition.php\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s an old saying in journalism\u2014a story just \u201ctoo good to check out.\u201d\u00a0 You can tell the media\u2019s bias not only from what they won\u2019t check out, but what they won\u2019t even consider checking out, let alone reporting.<\/p>\n<p>News item: a deranged young man, James Holmes, shoots up a Denver theater last summer killing 12, and ABC News\u2019s Brian Ross goes on the air to note that there\u2019s a \u201cJames Holmes\u201d affiliated with a Tea Party group in the area.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t bother to check it out; it was too good not to rush to broadcast.\u00a0 Turns out there was no connection.<\/p>\n<p>News item: following the bombing of the Boston marathon, a host of left-leaning media types hoped it would turn out to be a \u201cwhite American\u201d and not a Muslim extremist.\u00a0 NPR\u2019s Diana Temple-Raston speculated on air that it was likely right-wing extremists behind the bombing because it was Hitler\u2019s birthday that week, and Hitler\u2019s birthday is \u201cbig\u201d for the right.<\/p>\n<p>News item: Terrorists behead a British soldier in broad daylight, and then proclaim to bystanders that \u201cThey won\u2019t stop fighting until you leave us alone.\u201d\u00a0 And on the network news broadcasts I took in tonight I did not hear the word \u201cIslamic\u201d mentioned once in connection to the story, which even Janet Napolitano can\u2019t spin into something other than terrorism.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t want to \u201cspeculate,\u201d as Brian Ross might put it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. There\u2019s an old saying in journalism\u2014a story just \u201ctoo good to check out.\u201d\u00a0 You can tell the media\u2019s bias not only from what they won\u2019t check out, but what they won\u2019t even consider checking out, let alone reporting. News item: a deranged young man, James Holmes, shoots up a Denver theater last summer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413205,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90444\/revisions\/413205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}