{"id":282917,"date":"2016-12-06T10:43:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T09:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=282917"},"modified":"2016-12-06T10:43:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T09:43:33","slug":"media-complicity-key-blacklisting-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/media-complicity-key-blacklisting-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Complicity Is Key to Blacklisting Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>We still don\u2019t have any sort of apology or retraction from the <em>Washington<br \/>\nPost<\/em> for promoting \u201cThe List\u201d \u2013 the highly dangerous blacklist that got<br \/>\na huge boost from the newspaper\u2019s fawning coverage on November 24. The project<br \/>\nof smearing 200 websites with one broad brush wouldn\u2019t have gotten far without<br \/>\nthe avid complicity of high-profile media outlets, starting with the <em>Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday \u2013 a week after the <em>Post<\/em> published its front-page news<br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say\/2016\/11\/24\/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html?utm_term=.dada6e3cc36f\">article<\/a><br \/>\nhyping the blacklist that was put out by a group of unidentified people called<br \/>\nPropOrNot \u2013 I sent a petition statement to the newspaper\u2019s executive editor<br \/>\nMartin Baron.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmearing is not reporting,\u201d the RootsAction <a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/act.rootsaction.org\/p\/dia\/action3\/common\/public\/?action_KEY=12566\">petition<\/a><br \/>\nsays. \u201cThe <em>Washington Post<\/em>\u2019s recent descent into McCarthyism \u2013 promoting<br \/>\nanonymous and shoddy claims that a vast range of some 200 websites are all accomplices<br \/>\nor tools of the Russian government \u2013 violates basic journalistic standards<br \/>\nand does real harm to democratic discourse in our country. We urge the <em>Washington<br \/>\nPost<\/em> to prominently retract the article and apologize for publishing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/solomon\/2016\/12\/05\/media-complicity-key-blacklisting-websites\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We still don\u2019t have any sort of apology or retraction from the Washington Post for promoting \u201cThe List\u201d \u2013 the highly dangerous blacklist that got a huge boost from the newspaper\u2019s fawning coverage on November 24. The project of smearing 200 websites with one broad brush wouldn\u2019t have gotten far without the avid complicity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2519,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-282917","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\/282917","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\/2519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}