{"id":138858,"date":"2014-09-04T12:01:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=138858"},"modified":"2014-09-04T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:02:44","slug":"gq-mag-defends-war-criminal-tony-blairs-philanthropist-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/media-news\/gq-mag-defends-war-criminal-tony-blairs-philanthropist-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"GQ Mag Defends War Criminal Tony Blair&#8217;s Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Charlotte Meredith<\/em><\/p>\n<p>GQ Magazine has defended its decision to name Tony Blair its &#8220;Philanthropist of the Year&#8221; after the award was widely met with disbelief and horror.<\/p>\n<p>Awards producer Richard Dodson stood by the publication&#8217;s much criticised move,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2d7061;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/5live\" target=\"_hplink\">telling BBC Radio 5 Live\u00a0<\/a>it was &#8220;fantastic having Tony,&#8221; as the magazine likes to have celebrities at the event who &#8220;cause a bit of a stir.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The magazine certainly achieved that aim, with thousands of incredulous social media users frothing at the mouth over the &#8220;jaw-dropping&#8221; decision.<\/p>\n<p>The former prime minister, who earns millions from his consultancy roles and property empire, was handed the accolade at the glamorous ceremony on Monday to a reportedly &#8220;muted&#8221; response.<\/p>\n<p>GQ clarified its decision on Wednesday, sharing\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2d7061;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/comment\/articles\/2014-09\/03\/tony-blair-foreword-men-of-the-year-2014\" target=\"_hplink\">a column in defence<\/a>\u00a0of the prime minister on Facebook which argued &#8220;whatever your views on Iraq, in many ways we would be lucky to have Blair back in British politics today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2014\/09\/04\/tony-blair-philanthropist_0_n_5764304.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Meredith GQ Magazine has defended its decision to name Tony Blair its &#8220;Philanthropist of the Year&#8221; after the award was widely met with disbelief and horror. Awards producer Richard Dodson stood by the publication&#8217;s much criticised move,\u00a0telling BBC Radio 5 Live\u00a0it was &#8220;fantastic having Tony,&#8221; as the magazine likes to have celebrities at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-138858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-media-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}