{"id":146,"date":"2002-02-14T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2002-02-14T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/a-lie-repeated-becomes-the-mercury-news\/"},"modified":"2002-02-14T11:30:54","modified_gmt":"2002-02-14T18:30:54","slug":"a-lie-repeated-becomes-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/14\/a-lie-repeated-becomes-the-mercury-news\/","title":{"rendered":"A lie repeated becomes the Mercury News."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tUp to her old tricks, San Jose reporter Karen de Sa repeats the Herold fabrication about deaths in Afgahnistan: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarea.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/2666832.htm\">Mercury News | 02\/13\/2002 | Unlikely activists oppose war<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThere is no official tally of Afghan civilians killed by U.S. bombs, but Marc Herold, a University of New Hampshire economics professor researching the subject, estimates that 2,000 to 4,000 have been killed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems that Ms. de Sa needs some e-mails correcting this claim, since the truth is more likely in the hundreds. <a href=\"mailto:kdesa@sjmercury.com\">kdesa@sjmercury.com<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to her old tricks, San Jose reporter Karen de Sa repeats the Herold fabrication about deaths in Afgahnistan: Mercury News | 02\/13\/2002 | Unlikely activists oppose war There is no official tally of Afghan civilians killed by U.S. bombs, but Marc Herold, a University of New Hampshire economics professor researching the subject, estimates that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/14\/a-lie-repeated-becomes-the-mercury-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A lie repeated becomes the Mercury News.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-2m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}