{"id":22831,"date":"2023-11-28T08:04:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T07:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=22831"},"modified":"2023-11-28T08:04:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T07:04:36","slug":"medias-fatal-compromises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=22831","title":{"rendered":"Media\u2019s Fatal Compromises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2023\/11\/28\/patrick-lawrence-medias-fatal-compromises\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Israel\u2019s real-time barbarity in Gaza has worsened the relationship between <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">media \u2014<\/span> Western media, I mean \u2014 and the powers they are supposed to report upon. As to audiences, they \u2014 we \u2014 are left utterly confused to the extent the common language with which people can communicate begins to fail them.<\/p>\n<p>The result is not silence. It is a senseless cacophony that echoes through a weird <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">no-man\u2019s<\/span> land in which nothing can be said without the risk of retribution or condemnation or banishment. Civil discourse is more or less out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>We are now a dreadful step on from embedding, it seems. It is no longer enough to tether correspondents to the perspective of the military from whose side they report. We appear to be on the way to having wars fought \u2014 huge, bloody, consequential wars \u2014 without any witnesses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News: Israel\u2019s real-time barbarity in Gaza has worsened the relationship between media \u2014 Western media, I mean \u2014 and the powers they are supposed to report upon. As to audiences, they \u2014 we \u2014 are left utterly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=22831\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}