{"id":5909,"date":"2013-03-15T10:08:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T14:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5909"},"modified":"2013-03-15T10:08:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T14:08:02","slug":"sky-news-reporter-detained-in-china-while-on-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/sky-news-reporter-detained-in-china-while-on-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky News reporter detained in China while on air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a shortwave radio news item, but nonetheless relevant in the context of free press (or lack thereof) in China:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tIRbTD5fhnw\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThanks to Andy Sennitt for sharing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a shortwave radio news item, but nonetheless relevant in the context of free press (or lack thereof) in China: Thanks to Andy Sennitt for sharing.<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,304],"tags":[146,1136,807,1516,1768,1769,84],"class_list":["post-5909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos","tag-china","tag-free-press","tag-freedom-of-information","tag-freedom-of-the-presss","tag-sky-news","tag-sky-news-detention-china","tag-why-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1xj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11359,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/china-pays-local-radio-and-tv-stations-to-broadcast-their-content\/","url_meta":{"origin":5909,"position":0},"title":"China pays local radio and TV stations to broadcast their content","author":"Thomas","date":"November 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: The Independent via Andy Sennitt) \"The BBC has warned that China poses a \u201cdirect threat\u201d to its global reach by paying incentives to local broadcast companies to prioritise its state-funded CCTV service over other international networks. 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