{"id":4435,"date":"2015-11-20T17:40:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T22:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4435"},"modified":"2015-11-20T23:06:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T04:06:38","slug":"soviet-style-self-correction-elise-labott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4435","title":{"rendered":"SOVIET STYLE SELF-CORRECTION FROM ELISE LABOTT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always remember: it&#8217;s the people in this country who most stridently espouse hyper-patriotism who are the least democratic.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2015\/11\/20\/cnns-punishment-of-refugee-defending-journalist-highlights-media-abdication\/\">itemizes<\/a> the number of neo-con boot-lickers whose total lack of detachment and objectivity haven&#8217;t earned them a tincture of censure from CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Acosta can lather up the comic book rhetoric all he wants. Won&#8217;t get into a lick of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only the news staff who don&#8217;t go along with the right-wing hysteria and the militant statism and the drooling over intelligence and military figures no matter how discredited&#8211;James Woolsey, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>They are reprimanded, shamed, and forced to beg for forgiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always remember: it&#8217;s the people in this country who most stridently espouse hyper-patriotism who are the least democratic. Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept itemizes the number of neo-con boot-lickers whose total lack of detachment and objectivity haven&#8217;t earned them a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4435\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-4435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4439,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}