{"id":606,"date":"2016-08-07T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2016\/08\/07\/property-rights-case-study-denton\/"},"modified":"2016-08-07T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T22:11:00","slug":"property-rights-case-study-denton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/property-rights-case-study-denton\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Rights. Case Study Denton."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s look at how NBC News portrayed the local fracking ban in Denton:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words used to describe those opposed to fracking:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NBC&#8217;s words:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>not a lot of experience<\/li>\n<li>committed<\/li>\n<li>driven<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;inspiring victory for grassroots organizing and local democracy&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The supporters description of the opposition:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;were in Vladimir Putin&#8217;s pocket and were trying to protect Russia&#8217;s share of the global natural gas market&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>People in Denton &#8221;\u00a0lacked the sophistication to address technical matters like fracking&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Words used to describe those supporting fracking:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NBC&#8217;s words:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;the views of ordinary people don&#8217;t count for much&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>ruthless conservative power grab<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;runs roughshod over the authority of local governments to determine the direction of their own communities&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The fracking opponents description of the supporters:\n<ul>\n<li>. &#8220;I was worried about fracking to start with. But now I&#8217;m worried about democracy.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The trigger that started the opposition to fracking:<\/strong>\u00a0Drilling wells in &#8220;quick succession across the street from a playground, a hospital, and a row of homes&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/what-happened-denton-war-local-democracy-n620926\">NBC News | What Happened in Denton. The War on Local Democracy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s look at how NBC News portrayed the local fracking ban in Denton:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Words used to describe those opposed to fracking:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NBC&#8217;s words:\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>not a lot of experience<\/li>\n<li>committed<\/li>\n<li>driven<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;inspiring victory for grassroots organizing and local democracy&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The supporters description of the opposition:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;were in Vladimir Putin&#8217;s pocket and were trying to protect Russia&#8217;s share of the global natural gas market&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>People in Denton &#8221;\u00a0lacked the sophistication to address technical matters like&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,37,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation-trend","category-local-government-trend","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}