{"id":43528,"date":"2022-04-13T21:10:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/13\/shanghai-tv-channel-postpones-covid-spin-show-after-backlash-lockdown-outbreak"},"modified":"2022-04-13T21:10:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:10:03","slug":"shanghai-tv-channel-postpones-covid-spin-show-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43528","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai TV channel postpones Covid spin show after backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents express dismay online about tribute to city\u2019s handling of outbreak after extended lockdown <\/p>\n<p>A state-owned TV station in Shanghai has postponed a show that highlights the positive sides of the city\u2019s response to an Omicron outbreak after an online backlash.<\/p>\n<p>Shanghai Dragon Television, the city\u2019s main TV channel that also broadcasts via satellite to Chinese-speaking audiences globally, announced the decision on social media late on Tuesday night, hours after it was criticised online. Dragon TV said it welcomed \u201cvaluable feedback to our work\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/13\/shanghai-tv-channel-postpones-covid-spin-show-after-backlash-lockdown-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents express dismay online about tribute to city\u2019s handling of outbreak after extended lockdown A state-owned TV station in Shanghai has postponed a show that highlights the positive sides of the city\u2019s response to an Omicron outbreak after an onl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,1066,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/43528","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43529,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43528\/revisions\/43529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}