{"id":177330,"date":"2019-10-19T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/19\/fed-up-headline-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2019-10-19T06:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T11:26:00","slug":"fed-up-headline-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/19\/fed-up-headline-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"F%$#ed Up Headline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <i>The Hill<\/i>, they have a rather interesting headline, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/466330-poll-trump-leads-warren-and-biden-in-iowa\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Poll: Trump beats Warren, Biden in Iowa match-ups<\/span><\/b><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting for a number of reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, it&#8217;s a 51%-49% poll for both Biden and Warren trailing trump, with a 3.2% margin of error, so it&#8217;s a non story.<\/li>\n<li>Second, and more importantly, is what we see in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> paragraph:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><i>The reverse was the case for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Fifty-one percent of voters said they would pick him over Trump, who garnered 49 percent support.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a hacktacularly bad piece of reporting, and once again, as always, it cuts against Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At The Hill, they have a rather interesting headline, &#8220;Poll: Trump beats Warren, Biden in Iowa match-ups.&#8221; It&#8217;s interesting for a number of reasons: First, it&#8217;s a 51%-49% poll for both Biden and Warren trailing trump, with a 3.2% margin of error, so it&#8217;s a non story. Second, and more importantly, is what we see &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[615,684,490,374,405],"class_list":["post-177330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-hack-journalism","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}