{"id":34420,"date":"2021-07-26T17:46:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T08:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/26\/foreign-journalists-harassed-by-chinese-citizens-over-floods-coverage"},"modified":"2021-07-26T17:46:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T08:46:46","slug":"foreign-journalists-harassed-by-chinese-citizens-over-floods-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34420","title":{"rendered":"Foreign journalists harassed by Chinese citizens over floods coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters confronted in street and accused of \u2018smearing China\u2019 amid increasing sensitivity to any negative portrayals of China<\/p>\n<p>Foreign journalists reporting on the aftermath of China\u2019s flooding disaster have faced hostile confrontations in the street and been subjected to \u201cvicious campaigns\u201d, amid increasing nationalistic sensitivity to any negative portrayals of China.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters from the Los Angeles Times and German outlet Deutsche Welle were confronted by an angry crowd in Zhengzhou on Saturday, who filmed and questioned them, and accused them of \u201crumour mongering\u201d and slandering China. Other journalists have also been targeted, with a specific focus on the BBC.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/26\/foreign-journalists-harassed-by-chinese-citizens-over-floods-coverage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters confronted in street and accused of \u2018smearing China\u2019 amid increasing sensitivity to any negative portrayals of ChinaForeign journalists reporting on the aftermath of China\u2019s flooding disaster have faced hostile confrontations in the street an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,65,313,669,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-environment","category-flooding","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34420","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34435,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34420\/revisions\/34435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}