{"id":7862,"date":"2010-05-26T16:53:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T23:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7862"},"modified":"2010-06-03T19:22:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T02:22:59","slug":"toon-of-the-moment-what-could-possibly-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7862","title":{"rendered":"Toon of the Moment: &#8216;What Could Possibly Go Wrong?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<i>Note: See bottom of toon for a quick comment of mine in response. &#8211; BF<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/entertainment\/comics\/this_modern_world\/2010\/05\/25\/this_modern_world\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Tomorrow_102610a_DoomsdayBomb.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/entertainment\/comics\/this_modern_world\/2010\/05\/25\/this_modern_world\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Tomorrow_102610b_DoomsdayBomb.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As usual, the great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/entertainment\/comics\/this_modern_world\/2010\/05\/25\/this_modern_world\"> Tom Tomorrow is right on the money this week<\/a> &#8212; but with one exception here (a generosity to the media which I&#8217;m guessing he couldn&#8217;t avoid, so as to make his broader point clear).<\/p>\n<p>In the 4th panel where he quotes Media Woman as saying &#8220;On the other hand, industry-financed skeptics disagree,&#8221; the more accurate quote would have been &#8220;On the other hand, skeptics disagree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Corporate media seem to feel no obligation about pointing out that those &#8220;skeptics&#8221; they so dutifully quote (no matter how legitimate or illegitimate the skepticism) are actually industry shills. See <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7822\">this recent, and <i>perfect<\/i>, example<\/a> of the <i>NYTimes<\/i> doing <i>exactly<\/i> that in regard to the BP Oil Disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Note: See bottom of toon for a quick comment of mine in response. &#8211; BF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[450,200,188,60],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bp-oil-disaster","category-environment","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-toons","bb-type-toon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7862"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}