{"id":2587,"date":"2012-06-18T17:37:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T00:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2012-06-18T17:37:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T00:37:35","slug":"subtle-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2587","title":{"rendered":"Subtle Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest post by Loki<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/amateur.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/amateur.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"amateur\" width=\"170\" height=\"259\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2588\" \/><\/a>I have long believed the Helena Independent Record has a decidedly liberal bias. Today my curiosity found even more evidence to support my belief.<\/p>\n<p>I was reading the Helena IR Sunday looking at the bestseller book lists. I was looking at the nonfiction hardcover list when I noticed Rachel Maddow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDrift\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 was listed as number two on the list. But I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find Bill O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Reilly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcKilling Lincoln\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 or Edward Klein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe Amateur\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. <\/p>\n<p>So I quickly searched my way to the New York Times bestseller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s list. There I found \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcKilling Lincoln\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 at number six and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe Amateur\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at number one. I had to search way down the list to find Maddow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDrift\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 at twenty-eighth on the list.<\/p>\n<p>So even in the entrainment and lifestyles section of the Helena IR they have found a way to give a biased view of the world to their captive readers. No wonder there is such a large group of liberals in Helena. The ordinary citizens\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 only news sources in Helena are all liberal.  <\/p>\n<p>Subtle bias influences people so that they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know they are being influenced. And the Helena IR seems to have learned this lesson well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest post by Loki I have long believed the Helena Independent Record has a decidedly liberal bias. Today my curiosity found even more evidence to support my belief. I was reading the Helena IR Sunday looking at the bestseller book &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2587\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xq4i-FJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2590,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/2590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}