{"id":9481,"date":"2021-02-28T10:20:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T15:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=9481"},"modified":"2021-02-28T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T15:20:48","slug":"israeli-vehicle-carrier-ship-hit-by-explosion-in-gulf-of-oman-national-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=9481","title":{"rendered":"Israeli vehicle-carrier ship hit by explosion in Gulf of Oman | National Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/vehicle-carrier-ship-hit-by-explosion-in-gulf-of-oman-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Gulf_of_Oman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>The MV HELIOS RAY is a vehicle carrier owned by an Israeli firm, en route to Singapore from the port of Dammam in Saudi Arabia<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/vehicle-carrier-ship-hit-by-explosion-in-gulf-of-oman-3\">Israeli vehicle-carrier ship hit by explosion in Gulf of Oman | National Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>An example of &#8216;click bait&#8217;&#8230; they didn&#8217;t have a picture of the ship in question, so they used a pic of another ship with a nice explosion\/fire\/smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Sent this LTE:<\/p>\n<p>To the editors:<\/p>\n<p>Re: Israeli vehicle-carrier ship hit by explosion in Gulf of Oman, Feb. 26, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the The National Post for the most click-bait move I&#8217;ve seen recently.\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t have a scary enough picture of the MV Helios Ray on fire, so you use a year-old picture of another ship?\u00a0 I checked a bunch of other news organizations across the world; none managed to stoop so low.\u00a0 Even The Daily Mail and the NY Post used actual pictures of the actual ship involved!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><img id=\"hzDownscaled\" style=\"position: absolute; top: -10000px;\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"hzImg\" style=\"border: 4px solid #ffffff; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; margin: 4px; position: absolute; z-index: 2147483647; border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4) 0px 1px 3px; visibility: visible; opacity: 1; top: 5px; left: 97px; cursor: pointer; pointer-events: none; width: auto; height: auto; background-color: #ffffff; display: none;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MV HELIOS RAY is a vehicle carrier owned by an Israeli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[531,432,140],"class_list":["post-9481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-click-bait","tag-newspapers","tag-paul","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}