{"id":1035,"date":"2020-04-17T13:26:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2020-04-17T13:27:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:27:53","slug":"the-independent-news-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/the-independent-news-media\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Independent&#8221; News Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may have seen this compilation vid of various taking heads on all of the mainstream news networks saying the same thing, but it&#8217;s worth watching again even if you&#8217;ve seen it before. This vid debunks the idea that we have an &#8220;independent&#8221; media. This would be funny if it wasn&#8217;t so pathetic! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sinclair&#039;s script for stations\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hWLjYJ4BzvI?start=4&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Check out the &#8220;reporter&#8221; on the right &#8212; gotta do a better job of acting!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s another example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kjmaclean.com\/Newsletters\/MediaOneVoice.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Maybe it&#8217;s true that we need the WHO now more than ever. But at least try to reword the talking point!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once you understand that you are living in a world of Orwell&#8217;s Big Brother, you can laugh a little at the fake news and how transparently obvious is the attempt to manipulate opinions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have seen this compilation vid of various taking heads on all of the mainstream news networks saying the same thing, but it&#8217;s worth watching again even if you&#8217;ve seen it before. This vid debunks the idea that we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/the-independent-news-media\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjmaclean.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}