{"id":12815,"date":"2015-09-30T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T12:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12815"},"modified":"2015-09-30T07:17:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T12:17:23","slug":"value-in-reading-others-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12815","title":{"rendered":"Value in Reading Others\u2019 Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/09\/29\/value-in-reading-others-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\">Value in Reading Others\u2019 Propaganda<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\"><strong>U.S. policymakers\u00a0view their country as the \u201cexceptional\u201d and \u201cindispensable\u201d global policeman but\u00a0shut their eyes to how other nations see the world, thus blinding America to emerging problems and possible solutions, as ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller explains.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>All countries do it \u2014 promoting their own societies in ideal terms in order to influence others. The U.S. devotes a huge amount of time and money to selling its self-image and a view of the world as seen through American eyes \u2014 and perhaps denigrating others as well.<\/p>\n<p>Such \u201ccrafted\u201d image-making is hardly exclusive to the U.S. government. The New York Times, for example, supposedly our gold-standard on objective reporting, is heavily slanted when it comes to reporting nearly anything on China or Russia \u2014 among other issues.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/645617.jpg?55ac53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16002\" src=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/645617-300x200.jpg?55ac53\" alt=\"United States President Barack Obama (third from left) and Vladimir V. Putin (second from right), President of the Russian Federation, share a toast at a luncheon hosted by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in honor of world leaders attending the general debate of the General Assembly. Also pictured: Andrzej Duda (left), President of the Republic of Poland.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you recognize the nature of what you\u2019re reading, that\u2019s fine. But if you think you\u2019re getting the full skinny on the world, then it can be dangerous and self-deceiving. As we say in the free market, let the buyer beware.<\/p>\n<p>China and Russia, among others, certainly produce their own state propaganda, often far less skillfully than the U.S., and it more often comes in state-controlled media. The real danger, of course, comes when you start believing your own spin as representing reality around you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Value in Reading Others\u2019 Propaganda U.S. policymakers\u00a0view their country as the \u201cexceptional\u201d and \u201cindispensable\u201d global policeman but\u00a0shut their eyes to how other nations see the world, thus blinding America to emerging problems and possible solutions, as ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller explains. All countries do it \u2014 promoting their own societies in ideal terms in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[8083,130,135,6963,9420,1921,584,655,660,694,9421,822,826],"class_list":["post-12815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-ban-ki-moon","tag-china","tag-cia","tag-consortium-news","tag-graham-fuller","tag-new-york-times","tag-obama","tag-propaganda","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-self-image","tag-un","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12816,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12815\/revisions\/12816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}