{"id":688,"date":"2004-02-16T23:28:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2018-08-10T06:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T11:22:31","slug":"688","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/16\/688\/","title":{"rendered":"And It&#8217;s The Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/features\/chi-0402160136feb16,1,5394308.story?coll=chi-news-hed\" target=\"new\"><i>Chicago Tribune<\/i> story<\/a> (registration required) discusses the Ohio highway sniper and the journalists hazards a guess why the wires aren&#8217;t picking up her story and why she&#8217;s not been making the rounds of cable news outlets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The shootings remind a lot of people of 2002&#8217;s sniper attacks in the suburbs around Washington, D.C., which left 10 people dead before two men were arrested and charged with the killings.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio sniper case has garnered what appears to be less publicity, perhaps because only one person has died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps.  But some of us (which means &#8220;Brian J. Noggle&#8221;) in the middle of the country with a chip on the shoulder (not a cow chip, heinzenjohnkers) suspect it&#8217;s not garnering much media attention because it&#8217;s the middle of the country.  Were someone to squeeze off a few rounds over the course of a year on the Beltway, that person would get a lot of attention, even if he or she were not shooting to kill.<\/p>\n<p>Because the <i><b>important people<\/i><\/b> would be in danger.  Not mere citizens.  The super-citizens who work for the influence industry or the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Chicago Tribune story (registration required) discusses the Ohio highway sniper and the journalists hazards a guess why the wires aren&#8217;t picking up her story and why she&#8217;s not been making the rounds of cable news outlets: The shootings remind a lot of people of 2002&#8217;s sniper attacks in the suburbs around Washington, D.C., which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22532,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/22532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}