{"id":52828,"date":"2023-02-22T08:52:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T23:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2023\/feb\/22\/papua-new-guineas-draft-media-policy-is-an-attempt-to-legitimise-government-control-over-journalists"},"modified":"2023-02-22T08:52:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T23:52:53","slug":"papua-new-guineas-draft-media-policy-is-an-attempt-to-legitimise-government-control-over-journalists-bethanie-harriman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52828","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea\u2019s draft media policy is an attempt to legitimise government control over journalists | Bethanie Harriman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters need protection from violence and intimidation \u2013 not a law that makes it easier to sack them<\/p>\n<p>During my first week as a journalist in a television station in Papua New Guinea, I got told by a bureaucrat in a large government department that I should be careful what I write about him as he knew the country\u2019s prime minister. That was 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I\u2019ve received phone calls from government ministers asking me to omit certain details from stories. While covering an election, my cameraman was assaulted by supporters of a politician, I was threatened, and we were told to delete footage from our camera.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2023\/feb\/22\/papua-new-guineas-draft-media-policy-is-an-attempt-to-legitimise-government-control-over-journalists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters need protection from violence and intimidation \u2013 not a law that makes it easier to sack themDuring my first week as a journalist in a television station in Papua New Guinea, I got told by a bureaucrat in a large government department that I s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3596,"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":[41,238,874,267,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-media","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-press-freedom"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52828","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\/3596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52829,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52828\/revisions\/52829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}