{"id":25976,"date":"2020-12-24T02:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2020\/dec\/23\/indian-news-channel-fined-in-uk-for-hate-speech-about-pakistan"},"modified":"2020-12-24T02:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T17:54:00","slug":"indian-news-channel-fined-in-uk-for-hate-speech-about-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25976","title":{"rendered":"Indian news channel fined in UK for hate speech about Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ofcom imposes \u00a320,000 penalty on Republic TV for \u2018highly pejorative\u2019 comments on talk show<\/p>\n<p>A rightwing Indian news channel known for its strong pro-government stance and firebrand host has been fined by the UK regulator Ofcom for broadcasting hate speech about Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/04\/india-tv-anchor-arnab-goswami-arrest-escalates-feud-maharashtra-state\">Republic TV<\/a> was fined \u00a320,000 for airing a segment on its UK service, which conveyed the view that all Pakistani people are terrorists, including \u201ctheir scientists, doctors, their leaders, politicians [\u2026] Even their sports people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2020\/dec\/23\/indian-news-channel-fined-in-uk-for-hate-speech-about-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofcom imposes \u00a320,000 penalty on Republic TV for \u2018highly pejorative\u2019 comments on talk showA rightwing Indian news channel known for its strong pro-government stance and firebrand host has been fined by the UK regulator Ofcom for broadcasting hate speec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1357,238,433,60,61,519,521,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-islamophobia","category-media","category-narendra-modi","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-television-radio","category-television-industry","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25979,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25976\/revisions\/25979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}