{"id":798,"date":"2008-01-29T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=798"},"modified":"2008-01-29T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T13:45:00","slug":"censoring-arab-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/01\/censoring-arab-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Censoring Arab journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">A<\/span> Middle Eastern journalist friend recently had an opportunity to sit round a table with a senior political figure from the region.<\/p>\n<p>He asked the man a fair, but critical question. The politician brushed it aside. When the meeting ended, the politician sought him out for a quiet word, along the lines of: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your owners support our position on this matter. They would be very unhappy to know that you are asking such things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The threat was clear. So when do you stop asking questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Middle Eastern journalist friend recently had an opportunity to sit round a table with a senior political figure from the region. He asked the man a fair, but critical question. The politician brushed it aside. When the meeting ended, the politician sought him out for a quiet word, along the lines of: Your owners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,50],"tags":[1020],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","tag-me-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}