{"id":21087,"date":"2026-07-03T08:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=21087"},"modified":"2026-07-03T08:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:59:03","slug":"media-assume-100-of-what-they-write-is-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/07\/03\/media-assume-100-of-what-they-write-is-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Assume 100% of what they write is nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As in this case &#8211; see the Community Note<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"509\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HMT1SXvWoAAQlfV.jpg?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HMT1SXvWoAAQlfV.jpg 509w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HMT1SXvWoAAQlfV-449x600.jpg 449w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HMT1SXvWoAAQlfV-202x270.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This past week, the Oregonian had a sports opinion column about the Oregon Trailblazers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently the columnist referred to the Trailblazers as the <em>Jailblazers<\/em>, a term long associated with the team, and the title of a Nettflix documentary about the team, airing in April of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had to go to AI search to confirm they had used the term <em>Jailblazers<\/em>, and that the term has been used going back to the 1990s, allegedly at a time when many team players engaged in criminal acts and had interactions with law enforcement, hence, a pop nickname for the team becdame &#8220;Jailblazers&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is unclear what was in the original column although there are suggestions this was linked to a player whose first name begins with &#8220;Ja&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Oregonian editor had a meltdown and wrote a front page apology &#8211; never mentioning the word that was so offensive that he needed to bloviate about it. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/opinion\/2026\/07\/accountability-means-correcting-our-mistakes-letter-from-the-editor.html\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/opinion\/2026\/07\/accountability-means-correcting-our-mistakes-letter-from-the-editor.html\">Accountability means correcting our mistakes: Letter from the Editor &#8211; oregonlive.com<\/a><\/a> (the opinion is now behind a pay wall so they don&#8217;t want you to see it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accuracy is not the media&#8217;s strong point. Read the community note. Then, the Oregonian calls the Trailblazers basketball team, Jailblazers, a pop nickname used for the team for perhaps 30 years. The editor has a meltdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21090,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21087\/revisions\/21090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}