{"id":2577,"date":"2017-01-13T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2017-01-13T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T20:00:22","slug":"canary-in-the-coal-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/2017\/01\/13\/canary-in-the-coal-mine","title":{"rendered":"Canary in the coal mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Glazek writing for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theoutline.com\/post\/891\/ethics-in-rumormongering\" target=\"_blank\">The Outline<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe problem is that with <em>Gawker<\/em> gone there was no one around willing to proudly play the heel and do the wrong thing.\u201d While publishing the full dossier might have been off-brand for <em>Vox<\/em>, we should be grateful that <em>BuzzFeed<\/em> is filling some of the vacuum left by Peter Thiel\u2019s vengeful erasure of the political left\u2019s most influential rumor board.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The outcome of the Gawker lawsuit, and subsequent shuttering\u00a0of the website, was the canary in the coal mine. We now have a president who hates the media, who now has a very recent playbook\u00a0for taking publications\u00a0down.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting fake news with fake news is not the answer. The political left is still trying to figure out how to ethically\u00a0combat those who have no problems fighting dirty. I sure hope we figure it out soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Glazek writing for The Outline: \u201cThe problem is that with Gawker gone there was no one around willing to proudly play the heel and do the wrong thing.\u201d While publishing the full dossier might have been off-brand for Vox, we should be grateful that BuzzFeed is filling some of the vacuum left by Peter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[761,758,42,760,759],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}