{"id":11729,"date":"2009-11-18T12:58:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T17:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11729"},"modified":"2009-11-18T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T18:00:40","slug":"jonathan-cook-a-comparative-review-of-flat-earth-news-and-newspeak-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11729","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Cook: A comparative review of Flat Earth News and Newspeak &#8211; part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>medialens<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medialens.org\/alerts\/\">18 November 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Cook has been covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from Nazareth, Israel, as a freelance reporter for the past eight years. Before that he was a staff journalist at the <em>Guardian<\/em> and <em>Observer<\/em> newspapers. His latest books on the conflict are \u2018Israel and the Clash of Civilisations\u2019 (Pluto, 2008) and \u2018Disappearing Palestine\u2019 (Zed, 2008). His website is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jkcook.net\">www.jkcook.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the two-part Guest Media Alert that follows, Cook attempts the truly Herculean task of dissecting and comparing the key arguments in Nick Davies\u2019s book \u2018Flat Earth News\u2019 and our own recently published \u2018Newspeak in the 21st Century.\u2019 The results are enthralling but demanding &#8211; even hardened media analysts will require a plentiful supply of tea and biscuits throughout.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medialens.org\/alerts\/\">Continue reading<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>medialens 18 November 2009 Introduction Jonathan Cook has been covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from Nazareth, Israel, as a freelance reporter for the past eight years. Before that he was a staff journalist at the Guardian and Observer newspapers. His latest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11729\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-33b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11729"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11737,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11729\/revisions\/11737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}