{"id":7304,"date":"2010-06-17T01:44:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T10:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7304"},"modified":"2010-06-17T01:44:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T10:14:40","slug":"nyts-risen-hits-back-at-critics-on-afghan-minerals-story-raises-more-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7304","title":{"rendered":"NYT&#8217;s Risen Hits Back At Critics On Afghan Minerals Story, Raises More Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a id=\"title_permalink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/06\/16\/nyts-risen-hits-back-at-c_n_614230.html\">NYT&#8217;s Risen Hits Back At Critics On Afghan  Minerals Story, Raises More Questions<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Over the weekend, the <em>New York Times<\/em>&#8216;s James Risen had an  attention-grabbing story that touted the discovery of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/14\/world\/asia\/14minerals.html?ref=global-home&amp;pagewanted=all\" target=\"_hplink\">&#8220;nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in  Afghanistan&#8221;<\/a> said to be &#8220;far beyond any previously known reserves  and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the  Afghan war itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story was met with substantial criticism since the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ynews\/ynews_ts2565\" target=\"_hplink\">news  of the mineral riches was not exactly new<\/a>, which led many to  question the convenient timing of the piece. The <em>Atlantic<\/em>&#8216;s  Marc Ambinder, for example, said it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2010\/06\/the-mineral-miracle-or-a-massive-information-operation\/58104\/\" target=\"_hplink\">&#8220;suggest[ed] a broad and deliberate information  operation designed to influence public opinion on the course of the  war.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/06\/16\/nyts-risen-hits-back-at-c_n_614230.html\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT&#8217;s Risen Hits Back At Critics On Afghan Minerals Story, Raises More Questions Over the weekend, the New York Times&#8216;s James Risen had an attention-grabbing story that touted the discovery of &#8220;nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan&#8221; said to be &#8220;far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=7304\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NYT&#8217;s Risen Hits Back At Critics On Afghan Minerals Story, Raises More Questions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7305,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304\/revisions\/7305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}