{"id":1685,"date":"2015-04-24T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T13:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2015-04-24T15:55:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T13:55:15","slug":"a-guardian-masterclass-in-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2015-04-24\/a-guardian-masterclass-in-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guardian masterclass in propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Guardian front page headline today illustrates how media organisations propagandise day in, day out, even through the use (or not) of punctuation:<\/p>\n<p>Obama regrets drone strike that killed hostages but hails US for transparency<\/p>\n<p>That should have read:<\/p>\n<p>Obama &#8216;regrets&#8217; drone strike that killed hostages but hails US for transparency<\/p>\n<p>The subtler the technique, the harder it is for us to understand that we are being manipulated; the more effective the propaganda, the harder it is to inoculate ourselves against it.<\/p>\n<p>That is why the Guardian is the best in the business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/apr\/23\/us-drone-strike-killed-american-italian-al-qaida\" target=\"_blank\">www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/apr\/23\/us-drone-strike-killed-american-italian-al-qaida<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Guardian front page headline today illustrates how media organisations propagandise day in, day out, even through the use (or not) of punctuation: Obama regrets drone strike that killed hostages but hails US for transparency That should have read: Obama &#8216;regrets&#8217; drone strike that killed hostages but hails US for transparency The subtler the technique, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-1685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-guardian","8":"tag-media-criticism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}