{"id":5197,"date":"2012-01-09T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5197"},"modified":"2012-01-09T14:27:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T19:27:58","slug":"crusading-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5197","title":{"rendered":"Crusading Journalism &#8211; Don&#8217;t blame us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/media\/thumb\/jpg\/2012\/01\/08\/lindstrom0109_500px.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No wonder my carrier left a Minneapolis Strib on my doorstep this morning instead of a Dull Nadir Trib. After I spent ten minutes on the phone at the DNT a disembodied voice told me someone would be over to deliver today&#8217;s news. Same old, Same old until I read the Editorial&#8230;&#8230;actually, <em>same old<\/em> there too.<\/p>\n<p>After scratching their heads about how such a marvelously reviewed Superintendent as IV Foster could pack up his bags after six months with no explanation and a confidentiality agreement to keep everything hushed up all the Nadir&#8217;s Editorial geniousess could do was beg the public to stop speculating about what the hell happened. This was especially important since the Trib couldn&#8217;t help explain what happened resulting in a lot of ill tempered commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that our illustrious Editorial Board has endorsed almost every one of our zipped lipped Board members maybe this was really a plea for forgiveness for the Trib and its sorry state of journalism. The Nadir almost makes the Duluth School Administration look competent.<\/p>\n<p>If and when I run for Congress keep your eyes pealed for their favorite trite description of me as a &#8220;perennial candidate.&#8221; They wouldn&#8217;t know what a loser was if he\/she spit on them. That&#8217;s the kind of candidate they like to endorse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder my carrier left a Minneapolis Strib on my doorstep this morning instead of a Dull Nadir Trib. After I spent ten minutes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,62,109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5197"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5206,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5197\/revisions\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}