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<\/p>\nOnce again, it’s time for the latest headline news. And here, with the headlines, is Barbie Anchorbabe:
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Lately, it seems the US media have become entirely infatuated with the term “lockdown”, dropping it at every opportunity when covering breaking news such as school shootings or the recent Boston Marathon bombing, though it was once previously confined strictly to the context of prison riots.<\/p>\n
A blogger comrade of mine, Michael Smith, puts it quite nicely in a recent post<\/a> at Stop Me Before I Vote Again:<\/em><\/p>\n “…A whole SMSA* in \u2018lockdown\u2019 \u2014 America\u2019s favorite word, for the last few years. Oh how we love a lockdown \u2014 more even than we used to love a parade. Lock me down, baby. Lock me down!”<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yeah, Smiff, that’s for damn’ sure; the US media sure do love ’em some lockdown.<\/p>\n *Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, for you Census Bureau geeks out there.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n 11×17 medium-res color .jpg image, horizontal format,<\/a> 796kb Once again, it’s time for the latest headline news. And here, with the headlines, is Barbie Anchorbabe: Lately, it seems the US media have become entirely infatuated with the term “lockdown”, dropping it at every opportunity when covering breaking news such as school shootings or the recent Boston Marathon bombing, though it was once previously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,158,77],"tags":[497,496,499,498],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","category-obamarama","category-war-on-terror","tag-bombing","tag-boston","tag-lockdown","tag-tsarnaev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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