{"id":48,"date":"2018-04-06T19:53:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T00:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2018-04-06T20:07:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T01:07:41","slug":"48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/06\/48\/","title":{"rendered":"The narrative suffers some cognitive dissonance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Win-Bigly-Persuasion-World-Matter-ebook\/dp\/B06X1DWK4Q\">Win Bigly<\/a> for the last few days on the way home from work, and per Adams&#8217; framework, I&#8217;ve likely been using the Media Bias Filter for the last 20 years or so.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s been suiting me fairly well; my cognitive dissonance after the 2016 election was pretty minimal, and other than that my ability to predict outcomes in many areas has been fairly decent.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the media&#8217;s filters aren&#8217;t working out so well, and a few of them may be hitting some dissonance after the Mateen trial.\u00a0 \u00a0Per <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/omar-mateen-said-killed-49-people-isis-meant\/\">Jim Treacher<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">As usual, the media ignored all the glaring evidence that contradicted their driving narrative. Once they decided on their angle, nothing that the rest of us did or said made a difference. Their minds were made up. That was it. End of story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newLineContentFilterParagraph\">Forty-nine people were butchered that night because an Islamic terrorist thought Allah wanted it. It&#8217;s a disrespect to their memory to deny that. If you really want to mourn those people, stop lying about why they were murdered.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/trending\/omar-mateen-said-killed-49-people-isis-meant\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a>, then (maybe) read the whole other thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to Win Bigly for the last few days on the way home&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}