{"id":676,"date":"2007-06-21T02:49:54","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T02:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2012-05-14T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T08:45:10","slug":"lies-damned-lies-and-bushs-press-cronies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/general\/lies-damned-lies-and-bushs-press-cronies-676","title":{"rendered":"Lies, damned lies and Bush&#8217;s press cronies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frontline's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/newswar\/\">News War<\/a> is an excellent investigation of the way the White House manipulated the press in the lead up to the Iraq war. It's also about the aftermath.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What major players in the debates are saying about the role of media in U.S. society - and what's ahead<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Who made it?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>News War is a FRONTLINE co-production in association with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All 4 episodes of the TV series are available at the site and there are full transcripts of interviews with New York Times columnists, many other reporters and several media academics.<\/p>\n<p>It is all riveting - and often scandalous.<\/p>\n<p>The final episode, entitled War of Ideas, covers:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the fourth hour of News War, FRONTLINE\/World reporter Greg Barker travels to the Middle East to examine the rise of Arab satellite TV channels and their impact on the \"war of ideas\" at a time of convulsive change and conflict in the region.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A relevant quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Trust takes time to build,<br \/>\nseconds to lose<br \/>\nand twice as long to regain<br \/>\nas it did to build in the first place<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/general\/lies-damned-lies-and-bushs-press-cronies-676#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS's Frontline provides an interesting glimpse into the way the press fell asleep at the wheel when Bush and friends tried to dupe the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}