{"id":842,"date":"2005-08-08T15:24:40","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T15:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:18","slug":"well_the_alreut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Well, the Al-Reuters Name Isn&#8217;t Taken."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters and the UN are <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/site\/story\/0,14173,1544964,00.html?gusrc=rss\" target=\"browser\">backing a news agency in Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;The development of a robust, independent and reliable media industry in Iraq is of fundamental importance to the world&#8217;s understanding of this nation and its people.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;This new agency, the first of its kind in Iraq&#8217;s history, will have a profound effect on how this country&#8217;s story is told.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nGeert Linnebank, the Reuters editor-in-chief<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having an independent Iraqi news service, with Iraqi reporters and editors: a great thing.<\/p>\n<p>Having it led by Reuters, which is characteristically pro-insurgent and anti-West: not so great. Although the involvement by the UN, which is under a microscope and has taken strides toward supporting post-war development in Iraq could be good.<\/p>\n<p>I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters and the UN are backing a news agency in Iraq: &#8220;The development of a robust, independent and reliable media industry in Iraq is of fundamental importance to the world&#8217;s understanding of this nation and its people. &#8220;This new agency, the first of its kind in Iraq&#8217;s history, will have a profound effect on how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}