{"id":9145,"date":"2019-03-28T14:07:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T14:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=9145"},"modified":"2019-03-28T14:07:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T14:07:30","slug":"is-journalism-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2019\/03\/28\/is-journalism-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Is journalism criminal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The\njournalism surrounding the attack on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn displays all the signs of deep criminality. The media suggests\nthat Corbyn was \u201cegged,\u201d harmlessly struck with an egg in good fun. In fact,\neye witnesses affirm that he was brutally struck with the intention of inflicting physical\ninjury. The egg was just a special topping. One can\u2019t help but think that the\n\u201cegg effect\u201d was planned by those who orchestrated the assault for the very\npurpose of creating such a false and confusing narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The message to thoughtful politicians and officials is clear: \u201cyou will not even get accurate reporting about how you were attacked. The war on the opposition will be carried out by stealthy means and Corbyn and his like should just shut up or disappear.\u201d What should have been a historic moment that brought out mass demonstrations and an affirmation of the need to protect thoughtful politicians from attack has been normalized and ignored, treated like a minor event barely worthy of notice. We can easily imagine what the next step in this process of normalization will be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The journalism surrounding the attack on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn displays all the signs of deep criminality. The media suggests that Corbyn was \u201cegged,\u201d harmlessly struck with an egg in good fun. In fact, eye witnesses affirm that he was brutally struck with the intention of inflicting physical injury. The egg was just a special … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}