{"id":834,"date":"2006-10-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/10\/08\/772\/"},"modified":"2006-10-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T22:00:00","slug":"772","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/10\/08\/772\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Blogging!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Adams &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbertblog.typepad.com\/the_dilbert_blog\/2006\/10\/sunday_blogging.html\" title=\"The Dilbert Blog: Sunday Blogging!\">Sunday Blogging!<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;No matter how much news I absorb, I am always left with some important questions of context that seem conspicuously unanswered.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] My complaint is that these things should be included prominently in the news so the ignorant and lazy viewer such as me receives the right context without working too hard. Without proper context, the news is misleading at best, and intentionally biased at worst.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Iran has 25,000 Jewish citizens. The media made a big deal \u2013 and rightly so \u2013 about the president of Iran\u2019s comments about \u201cwiping Israel off the map,\u201d and of his questioning the Holocaust. For context, wouldn\u2019t you like to know how the Jews living in Iran are being treated? I know I can research that question on my own, but it seems like an important bit of context that was missing from the media reports.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Adams &#8211; Sunday Blogging!: &#8222;No matter how much news I absorb, I am always left with some important questions of context that seem conspicuously unanswered. [&#8230;] My complaint is that these things should be included prominently in the news so the ignorant and lazy viewer such as me receives the right context without working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}