{"id":1855,"date":"2007-02-27T13:33:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T17:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2007-02-27T13:33:16","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T17:33:16","slug":"stupid-times-power-worship-and-official-idiocy-at-the-nations-newspaper-of-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1855","title":{"rendered":"STUPID TIMES: Power-Worship and Official Idiocy at the Nation?s Newspaper of Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Empire and Inequality Report, no 12<br \/>\nby Paul Street, <em>ZNet<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmag.org\/content\/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&#038;ItemID=12202\">28 February 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>?The United States has always exercised as much power as it could.  It has always coupled that power with efforts to spread freedom?and fulfill their mission as the vanguard of progress.? <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">&#8211; David Brooks , <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist, February 1, 2007<\/p>\n<p>I?m always amused when ?conservatives? describe <em>The New York Times<\/em> as ?left? and ?liberals? describe it as intelligent.  Dominant United States media?s leading ?newspaper of record? regularly and routinely reports and comments on current events in remarkably sycophantic and stupid ways that hide and justify the crimes of Empire and Inequality.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmag.org\/content\/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&#038;ItemID=12202\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Empire and Inequality Report, no 12 by Paul Street, ZNet, 28 February 2007 ?The United States has always exercised as much power as it could. It has always coupled that power with efforts to spread freedom?and fulfill their mission &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1855\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-tV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}