{"id":195596,"date":"2008-06-27T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/27\/classic-right-wing-smear-job\/"},"modified":"2008-06-27T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T22:45:00","slug":"classic-right-wing-smear-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/27\/classic-right-wing-smear-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Right Wing Smear Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, we have Rupert Mordoch&#8217;s New York Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06262008\/news\/worldnews\/news_babes_iraqi_tryst_117192.htm\">going front page on an article about CPS reporter Lara Logan having an affair in Baghdad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that, a war correspondent in theater having an affair.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I agree with Will Bunch.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/attytood\/Is_Lara_Logan_being_smeared_for_her_criticism_of_the_media.html\"> Lara Logan is being smeared for her criticism of Iraq war coverage<\/a>, which she has been highly critical of.<\/p>\n<p>This started when she said on the Daily Show, that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2008\/06\/18\/the-daily-show-lara-logan-on-the-us-media-id-just-blow-my-brains-out-because-it-would-drive-me-nuts\/\">If I were to watch the news that you&#8217;re hearing in the United States, I&#8217;d just blow my brains out. &#8216;Cause it would drive me nuts<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, we have Rupert Mordoch&#8217;s New York Post going front page on an article about CPS reporter Lara Logan having an affair in Baghdad. Imagine that, a war correspondent in theater having an affair. In any case, I agree with Will Bunch. Lara Logan is being smeared for her criticism of Iraq war coverage, which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,974,1129,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-hack-journalism","category-journalism","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}