{"id":28027,"date":"2016-12-01T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T17:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=28027"},"modified":"2016-12-01T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T17:34:14","slug":"tell-the-washington-post-smearing-is-not-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/tell-the-washington-post-smearing-is-not-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell the <I>Washington Post<\/I>: &#8216;Smearing is not reporting.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/act.rootsaction.org\/p\/dia\/action3\/common\/public\/?action_KEY=12566\">SIGN THE PETITION<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>To: Martin Baron, Executive Editor, <i>The Washington Post<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Smearing is not reporting. <em>The Washington Post<\/em>\u2019s recent descent into McCarthyism &#8211; promoting anonymous and shoddy claims that a vast range of some 200 websites are all accomplices or tools of the Russian government &#8211; violates basic journalistic standards and does real harm to democratic discourse in our country. We urge <em>The Washington Post<\/em> to prominently retract the article and apologize for publishing it.<\/p>\n<p>Background:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The Intercept: <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/11\/26\/washington-post-disgracefully-promotes-a-mccarthyite-blacklist-from-a-new-hidden-and-very-shady-group\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i>Consortium News:<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/11\/27\/washington-posts-fake-news-guilt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post\u2019s \u201cFake News\u201d Guilt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i>Common Dreams: <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2016\/11\/28\/journalists-denounce-wapo-fake-news-blacklist-red-scare-redux\">Journalists Denounce WaPo Fake News as Red Scare Redux<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i>Fortune: <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/11\/25\/russian-fake-news\/\">No, Russian Agents Are Not Behind Every Piece of Fake News You See<\/a><\/li>\n<li><i>Rolling Stone: <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/features\/washington-post-blacklist-story-is-shameful-disgusting-w452543\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post \u201cBlacklist\u201d Story Is Shameful and Disgusting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/act.rootsaction.org\/p\/dia\/action3\/common\/public\/?action_KEY=12566\">SIGN THE PETITION<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIGN THE PETITION To: Martin Baron, Executive Editor, The Washington Post Smearing is not reporting. The Washington Post\u2019s recent descent into McCarthyism &#8211; promoting anonymous and shoddy claims that a vast range of some 200 websites are all accomplices or tools of the Russian government &#8211; violates basic journalistic standards and does real harm to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-28027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28029,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28027\/revisions\/28029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28027"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}