{"id":5371,"date":"2003-02-23T19:00:04","date_gmt":"2003-02-23T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stefandevries.com\/wordpress\/now\/2006\/02\/25\/war\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:57:41","slug":"war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/es\/2003\/02\/23\/war\/","title":{"rendered":"War?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stefandevries.com\/images\/now\/SupermanWar.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2 wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Last week I read an article in one of my favourite newspapers, <i>The New York Times<\/i>, about the different ways the media in Europe and the United States view the conflict in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p2 wp-block-paragraph\">The article, which was titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/02\/18\/opinion\/18KRUG.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Great Divide<\/a>, and written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkarchive.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Krugman<\/a> was interesting, yet did not quite explain why such a gap now exists between the Old World and the New.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">I found myself with a different view and wrote an article about it , and sent it to The NY Times. I was pleasantly surprised to receive an email a couple of days later that they had decided to print my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/02\/23\/opinion\/l-a-limited-worldview-452726.html\">contribution<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read it below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>To the Editor:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0 wp-block-paragraph\">Paul Krugman (\u00bbBehind the Great Divide,\u00bb column, Feb. 18) asks whether the divide between the United States and Europe is the result of \u00bbpervasive anti-American bias\u00bb in European media. I am almost sure that this is not the case. The reason is much simpler: Americans have no access to foreign media, nor do our national media cover a lot of foreign affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0 wp-block-paragraph\">Americans therefore are unable to form a nuanced opinion. In \u00bbold\u00bb Europe, where newspapers from around the world are widely available and everyone has access to television stations from at least three or four other countries, people have a more balanced view of the world than Americans do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0 wp-block-paragraph\">The \u00bbgreat divide\u00bb between Europe and the United States is not as large as many believe. Cultural diversity is what built the United States, and American media should start showing this diversity to their audience. If they don\u2019t, they risk becoming weapons of mass division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0 wp-block-paragraph\">STEFAN DE VRIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0 wp-block-paragraph\">Paris, Feb. 19, 2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week I read an article in one of my favourite newspapers, The New York Times, about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[750],"tags":[363,482],"class_list":["post-5371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-media-and-internet","tag-iraq","tag-new-york-times","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18282,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions\/18282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}