{"id":16390,"date":"2011-11-07T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T16:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16390"},"modified":"2011-11-07T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T16:32:07","slug":"david-cronin-book-review-fernandez-skewers-empire%e2%80%99s-messenger-tom-friedman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16390","title":{"rendered":"David Cronin: Book review: Fern\u00e1ndez skewers empire\u2019s messenger Tom Friedman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/people\/david-cronin\">David Cronin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/people\/electronic-intifada\"><em>The Electronic Intifada<\/em><\/a>, 4 November 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is unusual for politicians to namedrop journalists. And so it should be; our job as reporters and commentators is to expose the harm done by the powerful, not to curry favor with them. One exception I recall was during a 2003 press briefing given by <a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/tags\/james-wolfensohn\">James Wolfensohn<\/a>, then the <a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/tags\/world-bank\">World Bank\u2019s<\/a> president, most of which he spent listing his influential acquaintances. Among them was <a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/tags\/thomas-friedman\">Thomas Friedman<\/a>, who, Wolfensohn reminded his listeners, \u201cbelongs to your\u00a0profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After reading <em>The Imperial Messenger<\/em> by Bel\u00e9n Fern\u00e1ndez, the thought of sharing a profession with Friedman revolts me. Fern\u00e1ndez demonstrates meticulously how <em>The New York Times<\/em> columnist seeks to make racism\u00a0respectable.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/content\/book-review-fern-ndez-skewers-empires-messenger-tom-friedman\/10559#.TrgHxrKwVic\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Book review: Fern\u00e1ndez skewers empire\u2019s messenger Tom Friedman&#8221; by David Cronin<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada, 4 November 2011 It is unusual for politicians to namedrop journalists. And so it should be; our job as reporters and commentators is to expose the harm done by the powerful, not to curry favor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16390\">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-16390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4gm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16390","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=16390"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16397,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16390\/revisions\/16397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}