{"id":507,"date":"2004-02-25T04:15:22","date_gmt":"2004-02-25T11:15:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-02-25T04:15:22","modified_gmt":"2004-02-25T11:15:22","slug":"liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/25\/liberation\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nestled inside another <i>Economist<\/i> article is this little tidbit about <a href=\"http:\/\/economist.com\/world\/africa\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2442073&#038;CFID=23102023&#038;CFTOKEN=58c682a-b7936671-5995-4ba2-a3ab-8a42bd8ec57a\">the Iraqi governing council&#8217;s take on freedom of the press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>Though appointed and not elected, the council is reasonably representative of Iraq&#8217;s various groups. But it also has its flaws, one of which is a growing allergy to criticism. Its members say they believe in a free press but have shut down, albeit temporarily, the Iraqi operations of two of the Arab world&#8217;s most popular satellite channels.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nestled inside another Economist article is this little tidbit about the Iraqi governing council&#8217;s take on freedom of the press: Though appointed and not elected, the council is reasonably representative of Iraq&#8217;s various groups. But it also has its flaws, one of which is a growing allergy to criticism. Its members say they believe in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-507","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\/507","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}