{"id":373972,"date":"2018-08-19T03:09:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T02:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-the-washington-post-biased\/"},"modified":"2018-08-19T03:09:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T02:09:10","slug":"is-the-washington-post-biased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-the-washington-post-biased\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Washington Post Biased?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The mind of the mass media: Email exchange between myself and a leading <em>Washington Post<\/em> foreign policy reporter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>July 18, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dear Mr. Birnbaum,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You write Trump \u201cmade no mention of Russia\u2019s adventures in Ukraine\u201d. Well, neither he nor Putin nor you made any mention of America\u2019s adventures in the Ukraine, which resulted in the overthrow of the Ukrainian government in 2014, which led to the justified Russian adventure. Therefore \u2026?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If Russia overthrew the Mexican government would you blame the US for taking some action in Mexico?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>William Blum<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dear Mr. Blum,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your note. \u201cAmerica\u2019s adventures in the Ukraine\u201d: what are you talking about? Last time I checked, it was Ukrainians in the streets of Kiev who caused Yanukovych to turn tail and run. Whether or not that was a good thing, we can leave aside, but it wasn\u2019t the Americans who did it.<\/p>\n<p>It is, however, Russian special forces who fanned out across Crimea in February and March 2014, according to Putin, and Russians who came down from Moscow who stoked conflict in eastern Ukraine in the months after, according to their own accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Best, Michael Birnbaum<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>To MB,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I can scarcely believe your reply. Do you read nothing but the Post? Do you not know of high State Dept official Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador in Ukraine in Maidan Square to encourage the protesters? She spoke of 5 billion (sic) dollars given to aid the protesters who were soon to overthrow the govt. She and the US Amb. spoke&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/08\/is-the-washington-post-biased\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mind of the mass media: Email exchange between myself and a leading Washington Post foreign policy reporter: July 18, 2018 Dear Mr. Birnbaum, You write Trump \u201cmade no mention of Russia\u2019s adventures in Ukraine\u201d. Well, neither he nor Putin nor you made any mention of America\u2019s adventures in the Ukraine, which resulted in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373972","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\/373972","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}