{"id":75261,"date":"2025-11-20T13:14:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/20\/samoa-pm-bans-newspaper-press-conferences"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:14:43","slug":"samoa-pm-suspends-countrys-only-daily-newspaper-from-press-briefings-amid-dispute-over-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75261","title":{"rendered":"Samoa PM suspends country\u2019s only daily newspaper from press briefings amid dispute over coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister has accused the Samoa Observer of inaccurate reporting during his eight-week medical stay in New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>Samoa\u2019s only daily newspaper has been banned from attending press conferences with the Samoan prime minister, in a move that critics say threatens the democratic integrity of the Pacific nation.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between La\u2019aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Fosi Schmidt and the Samoa Observer have deteriorated in recent weeks, with the prime minister accusing the newspaper of inaccurate reporting during his eight-week medical stay in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/20\/samoa-pm-bans-newspaper-press-conferences\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister has accused the Samoa Observer of inaccurate reporting during his eight-week medical stay in New ZealandSamoa\u2019s only daily newspaper has been banned from attending press conferences with the Samoan prime minister, in a move that critics &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":865,"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":[41,874,936,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-samoa","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75261","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\/865"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75262,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75261\/revisions\/75262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}