{"id":8362,"date":"2014-11-13T12:53:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T17:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8362"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:02","slug":"why-the-press-is-less-free-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/13\/why-the-press-is-less-free-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Press Is Less Free Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/press-freedom-new-censorship?utm_source=tny&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=dailyemail&amp;mbid=nl_111314_Daily&amp;CNDID=26630741&amp;spMailingID=7283167&amp;spUserID=NDg4MzcyNDM3NzkS1&amp;spJobID=561402991&amp;spReportId=NTYxNDAyOTkxS0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Packer-Press-is-less-Free-690.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In recent years, reporting the news has become an ever more dangerous activity. Between 2002 and 2012, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists(C.P.J.), five hundred and six journalists were killed worldwide, as opposed to three hundred and ninety in the previous decade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/press-freedom-new-censorship?utm_source=tny&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=dailyemail&amp;mbid=nl_111314_Daily&amp;CNDID=26630741&amp;spMailingID=7283167&amp;spUserID=NDg4MzcyNDM3NzkS1&amp;spJobID=561402991&amp;spReportId=NTYxNDAyOTkxS0\">Why the Press Is Less Free Today &#8211; The New Yorker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know: In recent years, reporting the news has become an ever more dangerous activity. Between 2002 and 2012, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (C.P.J.), five hundred and six journalists were killed worldwide, as opposed to three hundred and ninety in the previous decade. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[992,990,991,989],"class_list":["post-8362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-committee-to-protect-journalists","tag-freedom","tag-new-yorker","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8369,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions\/8369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}