{"id":28813,"date":"2017-04-13T07:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T15:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=28813"},"modified":"2017-04-13T07:44:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T15:44:55","slug":"stephen-kinzer-on-how-the-press-gets-seduced-by-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/13\/stephen-kinzer-on-how-the-press-gets-seduced-by-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Kinzer on How the Press Gets Seduced By War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/\">WNYC Radio<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week, President Trump ordered the firing of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles on Syria in retaliation against the chemical attack allegedly committed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against his own people. The coverage of the strikes appeared to present a stark choice between good and evil, rather than a Gordian knot of geopolitics, regional politics, domestic politics, and the proliferation of terror. But is it really that easy?<\/p>\n<p>Bob Garfield speaks with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenkinzer?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Stephen Kinzer<\/a>, Senior Fellow at the <a href=\"http:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/people\/visiting\/kinzer\">Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University<\/a> and a columnist at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/contributors\/skinzer\"><em>Boston Globe<\/em><\/a>, who argues that the public is being presented with a deceptively simple version of reality because the media aren&#8217;t asking the right questions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"130\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/widgets\/ondemand_player\/wnyc\/#file=\/audio\/json\/749312\/&#038;share=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WNYC Radio: Last week, President Trump ordered the firing of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles on Syria in retaliation against the chemical attack allegedly committed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against his own people. The coverage of the strikes appeared to present a stark choice between good and evil, rather than a Gordian knot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"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-28813","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\/28813","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\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28818,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28813\/revisions\/28818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28813"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=28813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}