{"id":4852,"date":"2003-09-02T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-02T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4852"},"modified":"2021-06-14T17:44:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T17:44:29","slug":"biased-and-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/09\/02\/biased-and-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"Biased and Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarea.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/6657771.htm\">Judge orders change in Proposition 54 ballot summary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A judge ordered that the ballot summary for Proposition 54 be changed, saying it does not accurately portray the measure&#8217;s potential effect on medical research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is interesting that this story only points out the single minor change in wording ordered by judge after the lawsuit.  The AP completely omitted the fact that 90% of the lawsuit (which sought to make substantial changes to nearly every paragraph of the ballot description) was rejected.  That isn&#8217;t bad reporting. That&#8217;s slanted and biased reporting.  The bureau chief should be ashamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press on Judge orders change in Proposition 54 ballot summary: A judge ordered that the ballot summary for Proposition 54 be changed, saying it does not accurately portray the measure&#8217;s potential effect on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-4852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","tag-racial-classifications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1gg","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Editors-Corner.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7438,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions\/7438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}