{"id":24346,"date":"2017-06-29T10:39:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24346"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:44:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:44:33","slug":"seymour-hersh-blasts-media-for-uncritically-promoting-russian-hacking-story-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/06\/29\/seymour-hersh-blasts-media-for-uncritically-promoting-russian-hacking-story-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Intercept<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2017\/01\/25\/seymour-hersh-blasts-media-for-uncritically-promoting-russian-hacking-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHersh denounced news organizations as \u201ccrazy town\u201d for their uncritical promotion of the pronouncements of the director of national intelligence and the CIA, given their track records of lying and misleading the public.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nAlthough critical of the Russia coverage, Hersh condemned the Trump administration\u2019s attacks on the news media and its threats to limit the ability of journalists to cover the White House.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One thing that I like about the article is that it shows you can be critical of the Russia coverage and not be a Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/#q=sycophant\" target=\"_blank\">sycophant<\/a> at the same time.  That&#8217;s my position.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/02\/16\/seymour-hersh-blasts-media-for-uncritically-promoting-russian-hacking-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">previously posted this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intercept has the article Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story, Hersh denounced news organizations as \u201ccrazy town\u201d for their uncritical promotion of the pronouncements of the director of national intelligence and the CIA, given their track records of lying and misleading the public. . . . Although critical of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24348,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24346\/revisions\/24348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}