{"id":2297,"date":"2016-10-17T09:22:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T07:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2016-10-17T09:22:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T07:22:19","slug":"guardian-front-page-channels-orwells-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2016-10-17\/guardian-front-page-channels-orwells-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian front page channels Orwell&#8217;s 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the &#8220;liberal&#8221; press has become a truly Orwellian experience. What was true yesterday is a lie today. What was black today will be white tomorrow. Two reports on today&#8217;s\u00a0front page of the Guardian could easily be savage satire straight from the pages of\u00a0the\u00a0novel 1984.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Report one<\/strong>: The\u00a0Guardian\u00a0provides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/oct\/17\/iraqi-forces-begin-assault-on-isis-stronghold-mosul\" target=\"_blank\">supportive coverage<\/a> of the beginning of a full-throttle assault by Iraqi forces, backed the US and UK, on Mosul to win it back from the jihadists of ISIS \u2013 an assault that will inevitably\u00a0lead to massive casualties and humanitarian suffering among the civilian population.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Report two<\/strong>: The Guardian\u00a0provides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/oct\/16\/us-and-uk-consider-tougher-sanctions-against-syria-and-allies\" target=\"_blank\">supportive coverage<\/a> of the US and UK for considering increased sanctions against Syria and Russia. On what grounds? Because Syrian\u00a0forces, backed by Russia, have been waging a full-throttle assault on Aleppo to win it back from the jihadists of ISIS and Al-Qaeda \u2013 an assault that has led to massive casualties and humanitarian suffering among the civilian population.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, as was prophesied: &#8220;War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the &#8220;liberal&#8221; press has become a truly Orwellian experience. What was true yesterday is a lie today. What was black today will be white tomorrow. Two reports on today&#8217;s\u00a0front page of the Guardian could easily be savage satire straight from the pages of\u00a0the\u00a0novel 1984. Report one: The\u00a0Guardian\u00a0provides supportive coverage of the beginning of a [&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-2297","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\/2297","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=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}