{"id":2973,"date":"2006-09-11T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/11\/how-the-media-intellectuals-subvert-american-democracy\/"},"modified":"2006-09-11T20:05:53","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T03:05:53","slug":"how-the-media-intellectuals-subvert-american-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/11\/how-the-media-intellectuals-subvert-american-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Media &amp; Intellectuals Subvert US Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Globalist<\/strong> website posted an article of mine on how the media and intellectuals subvert American democracy.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the lead of the piece &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Why is it that in the United States, the vast majority of government abuses and failures either never show up on the\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0intellectual radar screen, or are merely one or two blips \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and then forever gone?<\/p>\n<p>One reason is that many intellectuals have long disdained the specific details of government policies.<\/p>\n<p>The more coercive government becomes, the more tactless it is to admit that government coerces. Looking at the actual details of government policy is left to the auditors and accountants, the congressional staffers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d or perhaps the interns.<\/p>\n<p>The politically correct attitude looks beyond the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s past failings and current botches \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and focuses instead on the idea of government&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Full text of the article is at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobalist.org\/DBWeb\/printStoryId.aspx?StoryId=5300\">Globalist website<\/a><\/strong> \u00c2\u00a0and on my blog\u00c2\u00a0 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/11\/how-the-us-media-helps-subvert-us-democracy\/\">http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/11\/how-the-us-media-helps-subvert-us-democracy\/<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0= where comments &amp; condemnations are always welcome<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Globalist website posted an article of mine on how the media and intellectuals subvert American democracy.\u00c2\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the lead of the piece &#8211; Why is it that in the United States, the vast majority of government abuses and failures either never show up on the\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0intellectual radar screen, or are merely one or two blips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"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\/2973","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}