{"id":3493,"date":"2015-06-22T15:38:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T21:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2015-06-22T15:38:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T21:38:48","slug":"associated-press-lines-a-pistol-up-to-ted-cruzs-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/associated-press-lines-a-pistol-up-to-ted-cruzs-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Associated Press Lines A Pistol Up To Ted Cruz&#8217;s Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are subtle subliminal messages, and then there are those that <em>almost<\/em> hit you right between the eyes.<\/p>\n<p>From the hyper-partisan Associated Press (AP) &#8212; which, incidentally, still masquerades as actual journalism &#8212; on June 21, 2015:<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.06.22-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.06.22-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-22 at 3.06.22 PM\" width=\"585\" height=\"407\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3494\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.06.22-PM.png 585w, http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.06.22-PM-300x209.png 300w, http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.06.22-PM-78x55.png 78w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe image is even more edifying when you compare it to other AP photo&#8217;s over the past few years:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.12.15-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.12.15-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-22 at 3.12.15 PM\" width=\"436\" height=\"276\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3497\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.12.15-PM.png 436w, http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.12.15-PM-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then there are these, some (but not all) of which also come from the AP: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.12.30-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.12.30-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-22 at 3.12.30 PM\" width=\"451\" height=\"238\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3495\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.12.30-PM.png 451w, http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.12.30-PM-300x158.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.12.01-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.12.01-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-22 at 3.12.01 PM\" width=\"605\" height=\"414\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3496\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.12.01-PM.png 605w, http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.12.01-PM-300x205.png 300w, http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-22-at-3.12.01-PM-182x125.png 182w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good old-fashioned objective journalism. Where&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media\/dp\/0375714499\">Noam Chomsky<\/a> when you need him? <\/p>\n<p>To be fair, the AP did today qualify their choice of photos, saying (and I quote):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe images were not intended to portray Sen. Cruz in a negative light.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are subtle subliminal messages, and then there are those that almost hit you right between the eyes. From the hyper-partisan Associated Press (AP) &#8212; which, incidentally, still masquerades as actual journalism &#8212; on June 21, 2015: The image is even more edifying when you compare it to other AP photo&#8217;s over the past few &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/associated-press-lines-a-pistol-up-to-ted-cruzs-brain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Associated Press Lines A Pistol Up To Ted Cruz&#8217;s Brain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[619,338,2572,2573,634,2571,2570],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}