{"id":231801,"date":"2016-03-15T20:23:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T20:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lester-b-pearson-the-myth-continues\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T20:23:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T20:23:45","slug":"lester-b-pearson-the-myth-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lester-b-pearson-the-myth-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Lester B. Pearson:  The Myth Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"123.44293163384\">\n<p>While coverage of Justin Trudeau\u2019s recent visit to Washington was embarrassingly banal in its emphasis on \u201cbromance\u201d between Obama and the Canadian PM, at least it was accurate (in the limited sense valued by the dominant media), except for the <em>60 Minutes<\/em> feature that comically confused a photo of <em>Sex and the City<\/em> star Kim Cattrall for Margaret Trudeau. However, one aspect of the reporting did stand out as both a lie and dangerous nationalist mythology.<\/p>\n<p>A number of media outlets discussed Lester Pearson visiting Lyndon Johnson the day after he reportedly gave a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.pe.ca\/Opinion\/Columnists\/2016-03-05\/article-4456611\/Uneasy-relations%3A-It%26rsquo%3Bs-never-easy-being-America%26rsquo%3Bs-close-neighbour\/1\">scathing speech<\/a> on American involvement in Vietnam.\u201d The Canadian Press described the former prime&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2016\/03\/lester-b-pearson-the-myth-continues\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While coverage of Justin Trudeau\u2019s recent visit to Washington was embarrassingly banal in its emphasis on \u201cbromance\u201d between Obama and the Canadian PM, at least it was accurate (in the limited sense valued by the dominant media), except for the 60 Minutes feature that comically confused a photo of Sex and the City star Kim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231801","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=231801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}