{"id":1045,"date":"2008-06-20T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2008-06-20T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T21:29:00","slug":"propublicas-flabby-al-hurra-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/06\/propublicas-flabby-al-hurra-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"ProPublica&#8217;s flabby <em>Al Hurra<\/em> investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.alhurra.com\/Images\/logo.gif' alt='Al Hurra logo' title='Al Hurra logo' class='alignright frame' \/><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span>ts takedown of feeble, US-funded news channel <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alhurra\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Al Hurra<\/strong><\/em><\/a> sounds like soft target city. <\/p>\n<p>The promised revelation?<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>American taxpayers are paying for a Middle Eastern television network that broadcast an anti-Israeli diatribe as recently as last month &#8230; ProPublica monitored the broadcast last month and found a Palestinian guest named Hani El-Masri on its flagship show &#8220;Free Hour,&#8221; calling Israel a &#8220;racist&#8221; state that is conducting its own &#8220;holocaust&#8221; against Palestinians. <\/p>\n<p>His exact quote, unchallenged by the host or balanced by another panel member, was &#8220;[Israel] is the occupying and racist state that imposes the stifling and deadly blockade and perpetrates a holocaust against 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a point of view. Occupying? Check. Racist? Well, not exactly pro-Arab. Perpetrating a holocaust? No, but&#8230;there&#8217;s the rub. <\/p>\n<p>American taxpayers are paying for a free-speech-supporting, Arab-influencing channel that is supposed to baulk at the idea of Arabs exercising their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\" target=\"_blank\">First Amendment<\/a> rights, however unpalatable. <\/p>\n<p>So is <em>Al Hurra<\/em> a waste of time <em>because<\/em> it&#8217;s a US-funded propaganda channel, or is it just a waste of time <em>as<\/em> a propaganda channel? <\/p>\n<p>Whatever <em>Al Hurra<\/em>&#8216;s problems, ProPublica has got to do better than this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its takedown of feeble, US-funded news channel Al Hurra sounds like soft target city. The promised revelation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}