{"id":4805,"date":"2016-04-05T09:11:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T13:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4805"},"modified":"2016-04-05T09:17:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T13:17:18","slug":"robert-parry-wary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4805","title":{"rendered":"ROBERT PARRY IS WARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>about the way that &#8220;mainstream&#8221; Western &#8220;journalism&#8221; keeps juggling those double standards as corruption looms large in the Panama papers. At Consortium News, he <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/04\/04\/corruption-as-a-propaganda-weapon\/\">decries<\/a> the way that the media industry:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;no longer even tries to apply common standards to questions about corruption. If you\u2019re a favored government, there might be lamentations about the need for more &#8216;reform&#8217; \u2013 which often means slashing pensions for the elderly and cutting social programs for the poor \u2013 but if you\u2019re a demonized leader, then the only permissible answer is criminal indictment and\/or &#8216;regime change.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>about the way that &#8220;mainstream&#8221; Western &#8220;journalism&#8221; keeps juggling those double standards as corruption looms large in the Panama papers. At Consortium News, he decries the way that the media industry: &#8220;no longer even tries to apply common standards to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4805\">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-4805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805","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=4805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4807,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4805\/revisions\/4807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}