{"id":23296,"date":"2019-05-22T13:20:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T03:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23296"},"modified":"2019-05-22T13:21:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T03:21:35","slug":"23296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23296","title":{"rendered":"Tanker attack was imaginary, but US says Iran did it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"473\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/saudi-oil-tanker.jpg\" alt=\"saudi-oil-tanker\" class=\"wp-image-23297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/saudi-oil-tanker.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/saudi-oil-tanker-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These network stories are examples of fake news at its most dangerous, when it plays into the dishonest manipulations of an administration beating the drums for a war against Iran that has no reasonable basis. Not only do the networks and mainstream media generally fail to question the administration\u2019s rush to war, they also fail to do basic journalism by independently confirming whether a particular story is true or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/geopolitics\/tanker-attack-was-imaginary-but-us-says-iran-did-it\/\">https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/geopolitics\/tanker-attack-was-imaginary-but-us-says-iran-did-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These network stories are examples of fake news at its most dangerous, when it plays into the dishonest manipulations of an administration beating the drums for a war against Iran that has no reasonable basis. Not only do the networks and mainstream media generally fail to question the administration\u2019s rush to war, they also fail &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23296\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tanker attack was imaginary, but US says Iran did it&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23300,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23296\/revisions\/23300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}