{"id":42541,"date":"2019-01-10T10:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T15:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42541"},"modified":"2019-01-10T10:45:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T15:45:31","slug":"how-mainstream-media-join-the-us-government-offensive-against-iran-case-study-of-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42541","title":{"rendered":"How Mainstream Media Join the US Government Offensive Against Iran: Case Study of Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How Mainstream Media Join the US Government Offensive Against Iran: Case Study of Reuters<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

Summary<\/strong>:\u00a0A 2013 news investigation of Iranian corruption by Reuters news service has been cited by at least four books published one after another, the most recently in 2018.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

It has also been cited by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2018 speech. Given the article’s ongoing influence,\u00a0this article will scrutinize flaws in the reporting techniques and raise reasonable questions about several of its findings.\u00a0The article will also mention, a piece of important historical context, that was long assumed, but made official in 2013 – the same year the story was published – when the US government released classified documents about its involvement in the overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader in 1953 and the establishment of the Shah. The purpose of this article is not to stain the reputation of an entire news agency – but to simply lay out an alternative context for interpreting a single, influential story.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Ever since the beginning of the Iranian Islamic Revolution, the United States has been leading a propaganda campaign against Iran, minimizing own harmful role in key historical events, justifying an ousted monarchist regime, and demonizing the new political system. Frequently it is done in lighter forms, for example by claiming that new government is far from perfect or even the same as a previous one, but the methods can sometimes be so radical that the characteristics of the two systems are completely inverted.<\/p>\n

While the\u00a0Reuters<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>claims Iran is active in spreading disinformation online, the history of the agency\u2019s reports about Iran shows the opposite. The latest of such reports is a false report about Iran\u2019s missile program. The falsehood of the article has been dissected\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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How Mainstream Media Join the US Government Offensive Against Iran: Case Study of Reuters Summary:\u00a0A 2013 news investigation of Iranian corruption by Reuters news service has been cited by at least four books published one after another, the most recently in 2018.\u00a0 It has also been cited by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in […]<\/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":[23755,7464,441,23840,2864,496,23839,1426,655,683,8203,827,843],"class_list":["post-42541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-falsehoods","tag-interpretation","tag-iran","tag-ivan-kesic","tag-lies","tag-mainstream-media","tag-meida","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-reuters","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42541","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=42541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42542,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42541\/revisions\/42542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}