{"id":15799,"date":"2011-07-22T04:00:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15799"},"modified":"2011-07-22T04:00:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T10:00:40","slug":"john-pilger-amid-the-murdoch-scandal-there-is-the-acrid-smell-of-business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15799","title":{"rendered":"John Pilger: Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>21 July 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh\u2019s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets his new special war correspondent, William Boot, in truth an authority on wild flowers and birdsong. A confused Boot is brought to his lordship\u2019s presence by Mr. Salter, The Beast\u2019s foreign editor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs Mr. Boot all set for his trip?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUp to a point, Lord Copper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpilger.com\/articles\/amid-the-murdoch-scandal-there-is-the-acrid-smell-of-business-as-usual\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual&#8221; by John Pilger<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Also on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.JohnPilger.com\">JohnPilger.com<\/a><\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpilger.com\/articles\/the-war-you-dont-see-now-available-online-worldwide-following-us-ban\">&#8216;The War You Don&#8217;t See&#8217; now available online worldwide following US ban<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 July 2011 In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh\u2019s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets his new special war correspondent, William Boot, in truth an authority on wild flowers and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15799\">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-15799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-46P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799","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=15799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15800,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799\/revisions\/15800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}