{"id":131,"date":"2022-12-01T10:03:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T16:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tad011\/?p=131"},"modified":"2022-12-01T10:03:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T16:03:17","slug":"news-comment-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tad011\/2022\/12\/01\/news-comment-13\/","title":{"rendered":"News Comment #13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ELON MUSK IS FINDING OUT THAT FREE SPEECH ISN&#8217;T ROCKET SCIENCE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article is talking about Elon Musk and his purchase of Twitter for $44 billion. Musk believes that free speech is lost in America, and only tyranny lies ahead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article itself had much information. I thought there was too much information, though. Reading the article took me about 8 minutes. For something written about only one topic, it seemed unnecessary to have that much information. It was all well written, but also not needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lead is a quote and is then followed by, &#8220;So says Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter, which remains, for now, the go-to place for political obsessives to argue over polarizing topics like gender therapy, school vouchers and Covid-19 policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think starting with a quote isn&#8217;t wrong, but it always seems like there&#8217;s better options. If he would&#8217;ve found a way to make the sentence following the lead what he started with, that would&#8217;ve been much more &#8220;attention grabbing&#8221; to readers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/29\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-free-speech.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/29\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-free-speech.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELON MUSK IS FINDING OUT THAT FREE SPEECH ISN&#8217;T ROCKET SCIENCE This article is talking about Elon Musk and his purchase of Twitter for $44 billion. Musk believes that free speech is lost in America, and only tyranny lies ahead. The article itself had much information. I thought there was too much information, though. Reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8068],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tad011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tad011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tad011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tad011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tad011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tad011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tad011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tad011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tad011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/tad011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}