{"id":8217,"date":"2008-11-15T02:51:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T07:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=8217"},"modified":"2018-08-11T02:52:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T06:52:58","slug":"16770-benjamin-isakhan-the-post-saddam-iraqi-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=8217","title":{"rendered":"16770. (Benjamin Isakhan) The Post-Saddam Iraqi&nbsp;Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This very inter\u00adest\u00ading arti\u00adcle in Glob\u00adal Media Jour\u00adnal [7 (13), 2008] by an Aus\u00adtralian schol\u00adar points out that what\u00adev\u00ader the motives, or the out\u00adcome of the inva\u00adsion of Iraq, it result\u00aded in the sud\u00adden emer\u00adgence of an active and free press in that coun\u00adtry. Tak\u00ading us on a tour of its vital\u00adi\u00adty and evi\u00addent pop\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty, he points out that this devel\u00adop\u00adment will pro\u00adfound\u00adly affect the future of the Mid\u00addle East. And he is keen on its poten\u00adtial for over\u00adturn\u00ading the clich\u00e9s and car\u00adtoon-analy\u00adsis that out\u00adsiders have long imposed on the com\u00adplex\u00adi\u00adties of that region. Rich in facts and detail.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This very inter\u00adest\u00ading arti\u00adcle in Glob\u00adal Media Jour\u00adnal [7 (13), 2008] by an Aus\u00adtralian schol\u00adar points out that what\u00adev\u00ader the motives, or the out\u00adcome of the inva\u00adsion of Iraq, it result\u00aded in the sud\u00adden emer\u00adgence of an active and&nbsp;free&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=8217\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bs-reading-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8218,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions\/8218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}