{"id":83,"date":"2005-11-23T14:23:53","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T21:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=83"},"modified":"2005-11-23T14:30:34","modified_gmt":"2005-11-23T21:30:34","slug":"bush-attacks-the-media-the-next-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Bush Attacks The Media &#8211; The Next Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/media_triptech2.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"5\">Recent stories circulating in the international press are affirming the hate\/hate relationship that BushCo has with honest, independent media.<\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/tm_objectid=16397937&#038;method=full&#038;siteid=94762&#038;headline=exclusive--bush-plot-to-bomb-his-arab-ally-name_page.html\">leaked document<\/a> from Downing Street tells the story of an enraged President Bush, that had to be dissuaded by Tony Blair, from bombing al Jazeera&#8217;s TV operations in Qatar. Everybody but the Mirror, and their source, is denying it, but it does make you wonder about the 2001 bombing of the station&#8217;s Kabul office and the 2003 missile strike that killed al-Jazeera reporter Tareq Ayyoub at the station&#8217;s Baghdad center.<\/p>\n<p>But wait, there&#8217;s more. Now, editors of British newspapers have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-1885279,00.html\">threatened<\/a> with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act if they publish the details of the leaked document which they also deny exists.<\/p>\n<p>The picture this paints of government interference with the press has Arab media being threatened with death and British media being threatened with jail . The U.S. media has nothing to fear because they&#8217;re already in bed with the government.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent stories circulating in the international press are affirming the hate\/hate relationship that BushCo has with honest, independent media. Another leaked document from Downing Street tells the story of an enraged President Bush, that had to be dissuaded by Tony Blair, from bombing al Jazeera&#8217;s TV operations in Qatar. Everybody but the Mirror, and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9515,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9515","url_meta":{"origin":83,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Hosts Join The &#8216;Blame America&#8217; Firsters","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/20\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Shortly after the attacks on 9\/11, a stunned nation struggled to explain how such noxious hatred could have formed and congealed into the heinous plot that took the lives of so many innocent people. 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