{"id":36,"date":"2003-04-16T14:28:18","date_gmt":"2003-04-16T18:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2006-06-29T18:09:51","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T22:09:51","slug":"reuters-the-bastion-of-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Reuters, The Bastion of Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know anymore. Maybe Reuters has been kicked in the teeth by AP and UPI along with the instant news networks too many times, but they&#8217;re pretty much doing away with sensible reporting and headline writing. Chris Wright has documented some of Reuters headlines showing obvious democratic bias, but today I&#8217;d like to show how the Repubs got one.?  <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;cid=564&#038;e=6&#038;u=\/nm\/bush_california_dc\">Check this story out<\/a>. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/vote2000.ss.ca.gov\/Returns\/pres\/00.htm\">this link<\/a>, 10,965,822 Californians went to the polls in the 2000 election returns (at least these are the &#8220;official&#8221; numbers&#8211;who knows how many votes were lost through routine election mishaps).<\/p>\n<p>The poll conducted covered 695 people. Let&#8217;s see&#8230; That&#8217;s 0.006338% of the total vote from 2000. However, they did get results (and a margin of error making the distinction meaningless), and they did get a sensational headline.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics, polls, and people or organizations with hidden motives will be biased. This should be expected as a fact before any data is considered in any circumstance.<\/p>\n<p>Use what God gave you, folks. Think about everything you read and try to test its validity if it is information that supports one position over another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know anymore. Maybe Reuters has been kicked in the teeth by AP and UPI along with the instant news networks too many times, but they&#8217;re pretty much doing away with sensible reporting and headline writing. Chris Wright has documented some of Reuters headlines showing obvious democratic bias, but today I&#8217;d like to show &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=36\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reuters, The Bastion of Bias&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}