{"id":921,"date":"2008-10-07T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T09:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2008-10-07T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T09:41:09","slug":"more-dompost-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"More DomPost WTF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Dominion Post, our capital city&#8217;s newspaper of record, features as its below-the-fold front page article the demented rantings of the online reactionary lunatics. (<a href=http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/dominionpost\/4718204a23917.html>Not so prominent online, thankfully.<\/a> The comments themselves are <a href=http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/vote08\/4717645a28477.html>here<\/a>, and they&#8217;re just as stupid as you might expect.)<br \/>\nAnyone who reads comments anywhere online will know these people &#8211; emboldened by anonymity, aggrieved by a world too complex for them, they seize the opportunity to decry political correctness and to call for a return to barbarism. They&#8217;re everywhere, sadly, but they are also a vanishingly small percentage of the total population.<br \/>\nThey have been mercilessly lampooned for a long time, even by such outlets as the Private Eye, which for all its many virtues is hardly up with the play in the internet age. There is <a href=http:\/\/ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com\/>an addictive website<\/a> devoted to ridiculing the more idiotic bletherings of this disgruntled rump. And yet, there they are, reported as front page news. As if they matter; as if they&#8217;re worth listening to.<br \/>\nAnother fine journalistic decision by the DomPost. You know, I bet if you google for five minutes you can find people online calling for Obama to be lynched &#8211; that can be your front page story tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Dominion Post, our capital city&#8217;s newspaper of record, features as its below-the-fold front page article the demented rantings of the online reactionary lunatics. (Not so prominent online, thankfully. The comments themselves are here, and they&#8217;re just as stupid as you might expect.) Anyone who reads comments anywhere online will know these people &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=921\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More DomPost WTF<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-political","category-mediawatch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-eR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}