{"id":60,"date":"2013-07-10T12:12:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T10:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2013-10-27T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T19:18:00","slug":"the-demands-of-a-top-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2013-07-10\/the-demands-of-a-top-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"The demands of a top journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of America&#8217;s most garlanded journalists, Walter Pincus, writes an article full of falsehoods and innuendo to smear Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden. The article is published in one of the world&#8217;s most prestigious newspapers, the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwald points out three major factual errors in the piece. Pincus grudgingly concedes one of them, while the WP dithers interminably on attaching a correction to the article. Meanwhile, the error-strewn article becomes one of the most read in the paper.<\/p>\n<p>And the lessons are: the more mainstream the media, the more it prioritises the interests of power; journalists who win establishment awards are chiefly serving the establishment; not all errors are mistakes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2013\/jul\/10\/washington-post-walter-pincus-correction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">www.guardian.co.uk\/<wbr \/>commentisfree\/2013\/jul\/10\/<wbr \/>washington-post-walter-pincus-c<wbr \/>orrection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of America&#8217;s most garlanded journalists, Walter Pincus, writes an article full of falsehoods and innuendo to smear Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden. The article is published in one of the world&#8217;s most prestigious newspapers, the Washington Post. Greenwald points out three major factual errors in the piece. Pincus grudgingly concedes one of them, while [&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":[48,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-60","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-glenn-greenwald","8":"tag-media-criticism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}