{"id":6508,"date":"2010-11-23T08:59:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T13:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6508"},"modified":"2021-05-07T18:30:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T22:30:22","slug":"qotd-shut-up-and-be-scanned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/23\/qotd-shut-up-and-be-scanned\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Shut up and be scanned&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>More on your authoritarian media . . .<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, my colleague Matt Welch ran off a list of newspaper editorial boards who are lining up behind TSA. The headline to this post is the actual headline from the <em>L. A. Times<\/em>\u2019 editorial. Given such cowardice about defending civil liberties in the face of hysterical hand-wringing about national security, I was going to post a snarky comment about how the <em>L.A. Times<\/em> would probably have told Japanese-Americans to \u201cshut up and report to your internment camp\u201d back in 1942, too.<\/p>\n<p>Then I did some Googling, and discovered that the paper pretty much did exactly that. As did a number of other papers.<\/p>\n<p>Radley Balko, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2010\/11\/22\/shut-up-and-be-scanned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Shut Up and Be Scanned&#8221;, <em>The Agitator<\/em><\/a>, 2010-11-22<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on your authoritarian media . . . Earlier today, my colleague Matt Welch ran off a list of newspaper editorial boards who are lining up behind TSA. The headline to this post is the actual headline from the L. A. Times\u2019 editorial. Given such cowardice about defending civil liberties in the face of hysterical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,10,28,41,13],"tags":[213,201,202,451],"class_list":["post-6508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-law","category-liberty","category-media","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-newspapers","tag-securitytheatre","tag-travel","tag-tsa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1GY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65611,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions\/65611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}