{"id":1002,"date":"2003-03-13T18:04:42","date_gmt":"2003-03-14T10:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/14\/news-not-propaganda\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:42:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:42:57","slug":"news-not-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/13\/news-not-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"News, not propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15113,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.journalism.co.uk\\\/news\\\/story576.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081202010854\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.journalism.co.uk\\\/news\\\/story576.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:35:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:35:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Jon Dennis, deputy news editor of the Guardian Unlimited web site said: &#8220;We have noticed an upsurge in traffic from America, primarily because we are receiving more emails from US visitors thanking us for reporting on worldwide news in a way that is unavailable in the US media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  The American public is apparently turning away from the mostly US-centric American media in search of unbiased reporting and other points of views. Much of the US media&#8217;s reaction to France and Germany&#8217;s intransigence on the Iraqi war issue has verged on the xenophobic, even in the so-called &#8216;respectable&#8217; press. Some reporting has verged on the hysterical &#8212; one US news web site, NewsMax.com, recently captioned a photograph of young German anti-war protesters as &#8220;Hitler&#8217;s children&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>  Mr Dennis said: \\&#8221;American visitors are telling us they are unable to find the breadth of opinion we have on our web site anywhere else because we report across the political spectrum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.co.uk\/news\/story576.html\" title=\"Journalism.co.uk: US public turns to Europe for news\">rather than from just one perspective<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This surprises me not at all. Many of the links I&#8217;ve either found or have been pointed to over the last months that actually contained <em>information<\/em> have come from overseas, where they&#8217;re not filtered through US economic and political interests. The &#8216;net really is changing the way we as Americans see both the world and ourselves, and I&#8217;m quite glad to be around for the shift. Maybe, eventually, we&#8217;ll be able to see ourselves as a global culture &#8212; I think things like this are the beginning step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;net really is changing the way we as Americans see both the world and ourselves, and I&#8217;m quite glad to be around for the shift. Maybe, eventually, we&#8217;ll be able to see ourselves as a global culture &mdash; I think things like this are the beginning step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}