{"id":5081,"date":"2018-02-11T19:13:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T10:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2018-02-11T19:14:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T10:14:06","slug":"newser-leftist-news-or-just-lefty-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/newser-leftist-news-or-just-lefty-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Newser &#8212; Leftist News, or just Lefty News?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can be difficult to sort out the source from the selection.\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking at Newser.com because it popped up in my FB feed a couple of times, and so far, hasn&#8217;t #triggered my bias meter.\u00a0 Oh, it&#8217;s all likely leftism of some sort or another, seeing as it&#8217;s news and all, but I wonder if it is damnably biased or merely flawed.\u00a0 In today&#8217;s news environment, those are the two ends of the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Any opinions one way or the other?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.newser.com\/<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5081\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5081\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be difficult to sort out the source from the selection.\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking at Newser.com because it popped up in my FB feed a couple of times, and so far, hasn&#8217;t #triggered my bias meter.\u00a0 Oh, it&#8217;s all likely leftism of some sort or another, seeing as it&#8217;s news and all, but I wonder if it is damnably biased or merely flawed.\u00a0 In today&#8217;s news environment, those are the two ends of the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>Any opinions one way or the other?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.newser.com\/<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5081\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5081\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}