{"id":179395,"date":"2018-02-22T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/22\/your-mainstream-media\/"},"modified":"2018-02-22T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T02:02:00","slug":"your-mainstream-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/22\/your-mainstream-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Mainstream Media"},"content":{"rendered":"
This week, the New York Times<\/i> rightly called so-called firearms expert John Lott a fraud.<\/div>\n

Last week, they published an OP\/ED on gun control by John Lott<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Remember last week<\/a>, when the New York Times ran an op-ed<\/a> from the gun \u2018researcher\u2019 John Lott, who has been thoroughly and consistently debunked by basically everyone else who researches gun violence?<\/p>\n

Apparently, the Times \u2014yes, the people wot run the bad op-ed in the first place\u2014does not remember! The paper issued an editorial today<\/a> on criminal justice reform, which included this paragraph dunking on Lott:<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps the most insidious part of the Trump administration\u2019s approach to criminal justice lies in its efforts to link crime to its broader crackdown on immigration. In a speech last month<\/a>, Mr. Sessions said undocumented immigrants are far more likely than American citizens to commit crimes, a claim he found in a paper by John Lott, the disreputable economist<\/a> best known for misusing statistics to suit his own ideological ends. In this case, it appears Mr. Lott misread his own data, which came from Arizona and in fact showed the opposite of what he claimed<\/a>: Undocumented immigrants commit fewer crimes than citizens, as the vast majority of research on the topic has found.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I would like to note that I also linked to that same Cato Institute debunking of Lott\u2019s racist fake research, which tells me the Times editorial board is reading my posts. Hi!!! You should all resign!!!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 Seriously.  Who does the New York Times<\/i> think that they are?  The Wall Street Journal?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, the New York Times rightly called so-called firearms expert John Lott a fraud. Last week, they published an OP\/ED on gun control by John Lott: Remember last week, when the New York Times ran an op-ed from the gun \u2018researcher\u2019 John Lott, who has been thoroughly and consistently debunked by basically everyone else …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[531,490,453],"class_list":["post-179395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gun-laws","tag-hack-journalism","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179395"}],"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=179395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}