{"id":39285,"date":"2021-11-27T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2021\/nov\/27\/radio-silence-afghan-stations-are-one-more-casualty-of-the-taliban"},"modified":"2021-11-27T17:00:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T08:00:53","slug":"switched-off-afghan-media-struggle-to-survive-under-taliban-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39285","title":{"rendered":"Switched off: Afghan media struggle to survive under Taliban rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 250 newspapers, radio and TV stations have closed in first 100 days of militants\u2019 rule<\/p>\n<p>The romantic serials have gone after the Taliban warned against racy content, the popular women\u2019s call-in shows were axed after the militants said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/23\/afghan-journalists-taliban-rules-restricting-role-women-on-tv\">they didn\u2019t want female journalists on air<\/a>, and news investigations were cancelled after officials demanded oversight before anything was broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>So perhaps unsurprisingly, most people who used to tune into Radio Sanga, once one of the most popular stations in southern Afghanistan, have turned off.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2021\/nov\/27\/radio-silence-afghan-stations-are-one-more-casualty-of-the-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 250 newspapers, radio and TV stations have closed in first 100 days of militants\u2019 ruleThe romantic serials have gone after the Taliban warned against racy content, the popular women\u2019s call-in shows were axed after the militants said they didn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2563,"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":[46,458,71,669,238,663,61,44,519,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-censorship","category-culture","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-radio","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-television-radio","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\/39285","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\/2563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39286,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39285\/revisions\/39286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}