{"id":18534,"date":"2017-04-03T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=18534"},"modified":"2017-04-03T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:57:09","slug":"the-guardian-and-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=18534","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian and diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guardian can’t handle the truth<\/p>\n

They ran this story about the backlash against Marvel comics losing sales after replacing long standing white male superheroes with “diverse” black females.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/apr\/03\/marvel-executive-says-emphasis-on-diversity-may-have-alienated-readers#comment-96029903<\/a><\/p>\n

The result was over 1,000 comments, mostly civil, explaining perspectives from long time comic book fans, and with the comments coming in at several a minute, the powers that be closed the commenting. This is a very familiar tactic (not just the Guardian) when the comments from readers indicate they don’t agree with the narrative laid out in a “news” story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guardian can’t handle the truth They ran this story about the backlash against Marvel comics losing sales after replacing long standing white male superheroes with “diverse” black females. https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/apr\/03\/marvel-executive-says-emphasis-on-diversity-may-have-alienated-readers#comment-96029903 The result was over 1,000 comments, mostly civil, explaining perspectives from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18536,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534\/revisions\/18536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}