{"id":29043,"date":"2017-12-21T07:15:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T12:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29043"},"modified":"2017-12-21T07:15:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T12:15:34","slug":"the-other-side-of-the-posts-katharine-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29043","title":{"rendered":"The Other Side of the Post\u2019s Katharine Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

The Other Side of the Post\u2019s Katharine Graham<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
\n

Hollywood loves to make heroes of The Washington Post for the rare moments when it has stood up for journalism \u2013 while forgetting the blood-soaked cases of the Post spreading lies to justify wars, writes Norman Solomon.<\/p>\n

\n

Movie critics are already hailing \u201cThe Post,\u201d directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep as\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0publisher Katharine Graham. Millions of people will see the film in early winter. But the real-life political story of Graham and her newspaper is not a narrative that\u2019s headed to the multiplexes.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Washington Post\u2019s Watergate team, including from left to right, publisher Katharine Graham, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, Howard Simons, and executive editor Ben Bradlee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThe Post\u201d comes 20 years after Graham\u2019s autobiography\u00a0Personal History<\/em>\u00a0appeared and won enormous praise.\u00a0Read as a memoir, the book is a poignant account of Graham\u2019s long quest to overcome sexism, learn the newspaper business and gain self-esteem. Read as media history, however, it is deceptive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe that whom I was or wasn\u2019t friends with interfered with our reporting at any of our publications,\u201d Graham wrote. However, Robert Parry \u2014 who was a Washington correspondent for\u00a0Newsweek<\/em>\u00a0during the last three years of the 1980s \u2014 has shed some light on the shadows of Graham\u2019s reassuring prose. Contrary to the claims in her book, Parry said he witnessed \u201cself-censorship because of the coziness between Post-Newsweek executives and senior national security figures.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among Parry\u2019s examples: \u201cOn one occasion in 1987, I was told that my story about the CIA funneling anti-Sandinista money through Nicaragua\u2019s Catholic Church had been watered down because the story needed to be run past Mrs. Graham, and Henry Kissinger was her house guest that weekend. Apparently, there was fear among the top editors that the story as written might cause some consternation.\u201d (The 1996 memoir of former CIA Director Robert Gates confirmed that Parry had the story right all along.)<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Other Side of the Post\u2019s Katharine Graham Hollywood loves to make heroes of The Washington Post for the rare moments when it has stood up for journalism \u2013 while forgetting the blood-soaked cases of the Post spreading lies to justify wars, writes Norman Solomon. Movie critics are already hailing \u201cThe Post,\u201d directed by Steven […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[135,6963,2954,17609,496,512,1426,15099,655,7203,3323,17608,5228],"class_list":["post-29043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cia","tag-consortium-news","tag-deception","tag-katharine-graham","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-misinformation","tag-norman-solomon","tag-propaganda","tag-robert-parry","tag-self-censorship","tag-the-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29043","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=29043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29044,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29043\/revisions\/29044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}