{"id":1195,"date":"2011-06-18T12:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T17:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2011-06-18T12:45:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T17:45:38","slug":"jonathan-marks-comments-on-rnw-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/jonathan-marks-comments-on-rnw-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Marks comments on RNW cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/RNW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1043\" title=\"RNW\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/RNW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a>Jonathan Marks has posted his opinion on the RNW cuts <a title=\"RNW will focus on free speech, eliminate most other broadcasting\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/rnw-will-focus-on-free-speech-eliminate-most-other-broadcasting\/\">announced yesterday<\/a> in his <a title=\"Critical Distance Weblog\" href=\"http:\/\/criticaldistance.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/radio-netherlands-worldwide-what-was.html\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Distance Weblog<\/a>&#8211;well worth <a title=\"Critical Distance Weblog\" href=\"http:\/\/criticaldistance.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/radio-netherlands-worldwide-what-was.html\" target=\"_blank\">reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Marks has posted his opinion on the RNW cuts announced yesterday in his Critical Distance Weblog&#8211;well worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3],"tags":[246,63,417,64,416],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-jonathan-marks","tag-radio-netherlands-worldwide","tag-radio-netherlands-worldwide-cuts","tag-rnw","tag-rnw-cuts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-jh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6844,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/jonathan-remembers-radio-netherlands-worldwide-one-year-on\/","url_meta":{"origin":1195,"position":0},"title":"Jonathan remembers Radio Netherlands Worldwide one year on","author":"Thomas","date":"July 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A few days ago, former RNW employee, Jonathan Marks, was sorting out some papers in his office when something \"spooky\" happened: \"one sheet [of paper] fell out of a pile and onto the floor. 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