{"id":346467,"date":"2018-02-02T07:47:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T06:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/honoring-robert-parry\/"},"modified":"2018-02-02T07:47:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T06:47:29","slug":"honoring-robert-parry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/honoring-robert-parry\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring Robert Parry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_99413\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99413\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-31-at-4.50.58-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"353\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Our Hidden History \/ YouTube | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Robert Parry\u2019s death is a profound loss to our country as a political and intellectual community. It\u2019s a shame that most Americans don\u2019t know that\u2014and, indeed, don\u2019t even know who Robert Parry is. That ignorance is a sign of how impoverished our political and intellectual community has already become.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who have been following his work for decades know how principled and reliable, and what a great resource, that work was. We took him for granted as a touchstone of journalist integrity, to which we could always return to get a take on important issues that, whether we agreed with it or not, was unfailingly honest, thoroughly-researched, and demanding of our attention.<\/p>\n<p>We also took for granted his own life story of being blocked from doing that honest, principled work in the mainstream media, and having to continue his career through a self-financed independent newsletter and website (<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/\">Consortium News<\/a>), a trajectory that guaranteed his continuing integrity <em>and<\/em> his relative obscurity.<\/p>\n<p>We took too much for granted.<\/p>\n<p>As the rabid Red that I am, I also want to note that Robert Parry is not someone whom I would call (or who, I think, would have called himself) a \u201cleftist,\u201d let alone a \u201csocialist.\u201d I winced a little whenever I read him giving Obama such generous credit for good intentions. He was, I would say (and I think he would have), a liberal. He is also someone who worked according to the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/02\/01\/honoring-robert-parry\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Our Hidden History \/ YouTube | CC BY 2.0 Robert Parry\u2019s death is a profound loss to our country as a political and intellectual community. It\u2019s a shame that most Americans don\u2019t know that\u2014and, indeed, don\u2019t even know who Robert Parry is. That ignorance is a sign of how impoverished our political and [&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-346467","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\/346467","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=346467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}