{"id":150225,"date":"2021-05-05T13:19:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=445f959e71d25d43d91e254abae77ecc"},"modified":"2021-05-05T13:19:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:19:12","slug":"netanyahu-corruption-trial-sheds-light-on-meddling-in-israeli-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/05\/netanyahu-corruption-trial-sheds-light-on-meddling-in-israeli-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu corruption trial sheds light on meddling in Israeli media"},"content":{"rendered":"News<div class=\"field field-name-field-rsf-chapo field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\">Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the disturbing and unacceptable practices threatening media independence in Israel that have come to light during the evidentiary stage of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s corruption trial, which began last month and resumed in Jerusalem yesterday. Much of it is focussing on Netanyahu\u2019s\u2019 attempts to manipulate the editorial line of several media outlets and more revelations are expected this week.\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\"><div class=\"field-items\"><div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\"><p>As the testimony stage was about to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/first-week-of-netanyahu-corruption-trial-paints-grim-picture-of-israeli-media\/\">begin<\/a> on 5 April, the prosecutor accus<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/netanyahu-corruption-trial-sheds-light-meddling-israeli-media\">RSF - RSS feed<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the disturbing and unacceptable practices threatening media independence in Israel that have come to light during the evidentiary stage of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s corruption trial, which be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150226,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150225\/revisions\/150226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}