{"id":1172,"date":"2012-09-05T04:26:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T04:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/05\/cnn-censors-the-news-to-aid-oppressive-regimes\/"},"modified":"2012-09-05T04:26:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T04:26:38","slug":"cnn-censors-the-news-to-aid-oppressive-regimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/05\/cnn-censors-the-news-to-aid-oppressive-regimes\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN censors the news to aid oppressive regimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/sep\/04\/cnn-international-documentary-bahrain-arab-spring-repression'>CNN censors the news to aid oppressive regimes<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>After Lyon&rsquo;s crew returned from Bahrain, CNN had no correspondents regularly reporting on the escalating violence. In emails to her producers and executives, Lyon repeatedly asked to return to Bahrain. Her requests were denied, and she was never sent back. She thus resorted to improvising coverage by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=02dv9noPI1A&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interviewing activists via Skype<\/a> in an attempt, she said, &ldquo;to keep Bahrain in the news&rdquo; &hellip; &ldquo;censorship was devastating to my crew and activists who risked lives to tell [the] story.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN censors the news to aid oppressive regimes After Lyon&rsquo;s crew returned from Bahrain, CNN had no correspondents regularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}