{"id":67254,"date":"2024-08-14T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=67254"},"modified":"2024-08-13T09:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T13:10:52","slug":"qotd-the-solipsism-of-the-american-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/08\/14\/qotd-the-solipsism-of-the-american-media\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The solipsism of the American media"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>&#8230; when it comes to solipsism, the American Media puts the average teenage girl to shame. The American Media doesn&#8217;t cover anything that happens outside the USA. In fact, if they can help it, they don&#8217;t cover anything that happens outside of New York, LA, or [Washington, DC], unless it somehow advances The Narrative. I am 100% certain that when the St. Floyd thing happened, more than one veteran &#8220;news&#8221; reporter had to look up where, exactly, this place called &#8220;Minneapolis&#8221; is.<\/p>\n<p>Severian, <!--<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottenchestnuts.com\/friday-mailbag-2\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">-->&#8220;Friday Mailbag&#8221;, <em>Rotten Chestnuts<\/em>, 2021-07-09.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; when it comes to solipsism, the American Media puts the average teenage girl to shame. The American Media doesn&#8217;t cover anything that happens outside the USA. In fact, if they can help it, they don&#8217;t cover anything that happens outside of New York, LA, or [Washington, DC], unless it somehow advances The Narrative. I [&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":[28,53,41,13],"tags":[1420,213,1462,907,101],"class_list":["post-67254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-classism","tag-newspapers","tag-severian","tag-snobbery","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-huK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67254","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=67254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91024,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67254\/revisions\/91024"}],"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=67254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}