{"id":5914,"date":"2011-03-22T12:39:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T17:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5914"},"modified":"2011-03-22T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T17:39:13","slug":"cnn-correspondent-goes-ballistic-over-fox-news-libyahuman-shield-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/03\/22\/cnn-correspondent-goes-ballistic-over-fox-news-libyahuman-shield-report\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Correspondent Goes Ballistic Over Fox News Libya\/Human Shield Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do not hold up CNN as a paragon of journalistic virtue, so make of this what you will.<br \/>\nBelow is the video and a few paragraphs from the report <strong><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"TPM report\"href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/03\/cnn-correspondent-goes-ballistic-on-fox-over-libyahuman-shield-report-video.php\">CNN Correspondent Goes Ballistic Over Fox News Libya\/Human Shield Report<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<object width=\"416\" height=\"374\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"ep\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&#038;videoId=bestoftv\/2011\/03\/21\/exp.tsr.robertson.blitzer.cnn\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&#038;videoId=bestoftv\/2011\/03\/21\/exp.tsr.robertson.blitzer.cnn\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"416\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"374\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\nCNN correspondent Nic Robertson has a bone or two to pick with Fox News, which reported today that he and other journalists were used by the Libyan Ministry of Information as human shields, in a successful bid to block a coming, second attack on a compound in Tripoli, supposedly controlled by Qaddafi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]his allegation is outrageous and it&#8217;s absolutely hypocritical. When you come to somewhere like Libya, you expect lies and deceit from a dictatorship here,&#8221; Robertson told Wolf Blitzer. &#8220;You don&#8217;t expect it from the other journalists.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not hold up CNN as a paragon of journalistic virtue, so make of this what you will. Below is the video and a few paragraphs from the report CNN Correspondent Goes Ballistic Over Fox News Libya\/Human Shield Report. CNN correspondent Nic Robertson has a bone or two to pick with Fox News, which [&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-5914","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\/5914","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=5914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5915,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions\/5915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}