{"id":3932,"date":"2015-01-02T20:26:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T01:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3932"},"modified":"2015-01-02T20:26:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T01:26:32","slug":"u-s-media-dangerously-regurgitated-government-claims-about-north-korea-and-sony-truthdig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3932","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Media Dangerously Regurgitated Government Claims About North Korea and Sony – Truthdig"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Media Dangerously Regurgitated Government Claims About North Korea and Sony – Truthdig<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By reflexively and uncritically repeating the Obama administration\u2019s unsubstantiated claim that North Korea was behind the hack of Sony Pictures, the U.S. establishment press once again revealed itself to be a mouthpiece for\u2014rather than a check on\u2014power, and thus a danger to public security, Glenn Greenwald\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0at The Intercept on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Greenwald began his critique by quoting President Obama\u2019s Dec. 19 announcement that \u201cwe can confirm that North Korea engaged in this attack,\u201d that the U.S. \u201cwill respond,\u201d and that \u201cwe cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two days before the announcement, The New York Times \u201ccorruptly\u201d granted anonymity to \u201csenior administration officials\u201d to \u201cdisseminate their inflammatory claims with no accountability.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith virtually no skepticism about the official accusation, reporters David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth deemed the incident a \u2018cyberterrorism attack\u2019 and devoted the bulk of the article to examining the retaliatory actions the government could take against the North Koreans.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Media Dangerously Regurgitated Government Claims About North Korea and Sony – Truthdig. By reflexively and uncritically repeating the Obama administration\u2019s unsubstantiated claim that North Korea was behind the hack of Sony Pictures, the U.S. establishment press once again revealed itself to be a mouthpiece for\u2014rather than a check on\u2014power, and thus a danger to […]<\/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],"tags":[2077,2006,584,2004,834],"class_list":["post-3932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cyberattack","tag-north-korea","tag-obama","tag-sony","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932","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=3932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3933,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3932\/revisions\/3933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}