{"id":11310,"date":"2019-11-05T10:40:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11310"},"modified":"2019-11-05T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:40:27","slug":"its-official-the-nyt-is-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11310","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s official: The NYT is &#8220;fake news&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Citrus County, Florida, county commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2019\/11\/05\/new-york-times-citrus-county-florida-library-subscription-rejected-fake-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refused to fund a library subscription<\/a> to the <i>New York Times<\/i> because it&#8217;s &#8220;fake news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The librarians of Citrus County, Fla., had what seemed like a modest wish: A digital subscription to the New York Times. For about $2,700 annually, they reasoned, they could offer their roughly 70,000 patrons an easy way to research and catch up on the news.<\/p>\n<p>But when their request came before the Citrus County commission last month, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">local officials literally laughed out loud. One commissioner, Scott Carnahan, declared the paper to be \u201cfake news.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI agree with President Trump,\u201d he said. \u201cI will not be voting for this. <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">I don\u2019t want the New York Times in this county<\/span>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once again, I marvel at what so many Americans don&#8217;t know about their own country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Citrus County, Florida, county commission refused to fund a library subscription to the New York Times because it&#8217;s &#8220;fake news.&#8221; The librarians of Citrus County, Fla., had what seemed like a modest wish: A digital subscription to the New &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11310\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11312,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310\/revisions\/11312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}