{"id":1464,"date":"2023-12-31T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2023-12-31T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T21:54:10","slug":"into-the-trash-heap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=1464","title":{"rendered":"Into the Trash Heap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We send this year, worse &#8211; as always &#8211; than the preceding one, into the trash heap of history as the high mark of misinformation and disinformation in recent history. Control of media by heavily biased (mostly pro-authoritarian and increasingly proto-fascist) interests has been accelerating as obscene wealth concentration increasingly purchases influence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next year will be worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We send this year, worse &#8211; as always &#8211; than the preceding one, into the trash heap of history as the high mark of misinformation and disinformation in recent history. Control of media by heavily biased (mostly pro-authoritarian and increasingly proto-fascist) interests has been accelerating as obscene wealth concentration increasingly purchases influence. Next year will [&hellip;]<\/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-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}