{"id":3695,"date":"2007-07-09T06:30:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/09\/imperial-propaganda\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T06:30:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T13:30:01","slug":"imperial-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/09\/imperial-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cunning Realist commits <a href=\"http:\/\/cunningrealist.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/credibility-chasm.html\">an act of authentic journalism<\/a> and exposes a propagandist.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Short background on Bergner: He became head spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq in early June. His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenselink.mil\/releases\/release.aspx?releaseid=10655\"> official<\/a> title? Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Effects. He was Michael Gordon&#8217;s only source for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/02\/world\/middleeast\/02cnd-iran.html?hp\"> this<\/a> <em>New York Times<\/em> piece on alleged Iranian ties to the Karbala raid in which five American troops were killed. His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/government\/k-bergner-bio.html\"> previous<\/a> position: Special Assistant to President Bush.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Memo to the &#8220;real&#8221; press:  That&#8217;s how it&#8217;s supposed to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cunning Realist commits an act of authentic journalism and exposes a propagandist. Conclusion: Short background on Bergner: He became head spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq in early June. His official title? Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Effects. He was Michael Gordon&#8217;s only source for this New York Times piece on alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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-3695","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\/3695","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3695"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}