{"id":40371,"date":"2022-01-07T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/jan\/07\/i-had-death-threats-for-my-reporting-many-journalists-in-the-pacific-face-huge-dangers"},"modified":"2022-01-07T09:20:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:20:22","slug":"i-had-death-threats-and-my-tires-splashed-for-my-reporting-many-journalists-in-the-pacific-face-huge-dangers-joyce-mcclure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40371","title":{"rendered":"I had death threats and my tires slashed for my reporting. Many journalists in the Pacific face huge dangers | Joyce McClure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom of the press might be included in some constitutions of Pacific countries, but it often only works in theory<\/p>\n<p>I spent five years as the lone journalist on the remote Pacific island of Yap. During that time I was harassed, spat at, threatened with assassination and warned that I was being followed. The tyres on my car were slashed late one night.<\/p>\n<p>There was also pressure on the political level. The chiefs of the traditional Council of Pilung (COP) asked the state legislature to throw me out of the country as a \u201cpersona non grata\u201d claiming that my journalism \u201cmay be disruptive to the state environment and\/or to the safety and security of the state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/jan\/07\/i-had-death-threats-for-my-reporting-many-journalists-in-the-pacific-face-huge-dangers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom of the press might be included in some constitutions of Pacific countries, but it often only works in theoryI spent five years as the lone journalist on the remote Pacific island of Yap. During that time I was harassed, spat at, threatened with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2773,"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":[41,436,238,952,671,672,874,267,54,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-media","category-micronesia","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-press-freedom","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","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\/40371","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\/2773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40385,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40371\/revisions\/40385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}