{"id":1993,"date":"2004-05-26T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2004-05-26T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-26T16:13:00","slug":"mea-sorta-culpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/05\/26\/12\/13\/mea-sorta-culpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mea Sorta Culpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>New York Times<\/i> was one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/cockburn08182003.html\">major cheerleaders<\/a> for an invasion of Iraq &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/international\/middleeast\/20040526CRITIQUE.html\">frequently citing the most unbelievably bogus stories about Iraqi WMDs or Al Qaida links as fact<\/a>. Many of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/news\/nation\/8195595.htm?template=contentModules\/printstory.jsp&#038;1c\">fables<\/a> seem to have <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2083736\/\">come straight from Ahmed Chalabi<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A28385-2003Jun24?language=printer\">Dick Cheney&#8217;s office<\/a> via their &#8220;ace&#8221; reporter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfopedia.org\/wiki.phtml?title=Judith_Miller\">Judith Miller<\/a>. Anyway, the <i>Times<\/i> has finally got around to announcing, rather sheepishly, that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/26\/international\/middleeast\/26FTE_NOTE.html\">pretty much everything of significance that the <i>Times<\/i> reported over the last two years about Iraq was wrong, incorrect, or plain fabricated<\/a>. That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/16922\">so many of the &#8220;best&#8221; media in the US fell into lockstep with such a manifestly corrupt war agenda<\/a> says volumes about the state of public discourse in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times was one of the major cheerleaders for an invasion of Iraq &#8211; frequently citing the most unbelievably bogus stories about Iraqi WMDs or Al Qaida links as fact. Many of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}