{"id":285,"date":"2007-02-17T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2007-02-17T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T09:03:00","slug":"bribing-arab-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/02\/bribing-arab-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Bribing Arab journalists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">I<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalvoicesonline.org\/2007\/02\/15\/arabisc-are-the-americans-bribing-arab-journalists\/\" target=\"_blank\">nteresting post<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinamediablog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca M<\/a>, on the efficacy of shipping Jordanian journalists back to the US on the State Department&#8217;s dime. The post is headlined <span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Are the Americans bribing Arab journalists?<\/span><\/span> which gives you some idea of how the author views American hospitality.<\/p>\n<p>Being the guest of a government whose policies you find offensive is surely no less demanding than being a citizen of state whose policies you find offensive? Given the criticism it engenders it&#8217;s hard to see how State Department junkets for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Arab journalists<\/span> could be viewed as bribery. Pointless, or a waste of money, perhaps? But then it&#8217;s easier to criticize your host than a non-democratic government&#8230;and I don&#8217;t make that point lightly &#8211; Middle Eastern journalists  face consequences far graver than dismissal for their everyday reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting post via Rebecca M, on the efficacy of shipping Jordanian journalists back to the US on the State Department&#8217;s dime. The post is headlined Are the Americans bribing Arab journalists? which gives you some idea of how the author views American hospitality. Being the guest of a government whose policies you find offensive is [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","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=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}