{"id":11864,"date":"2021-09-10T20:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=11864"},"modified":"2021-09-10T20:30:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T20:30:10","slug":"rsf-protests-on-polish-law-against-us-tv-channel-banning-reporters-to-cover-situation-on-belarus-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/rsf-protests-on-polish-law-against-us-tv-channel-banning-reporters-to-cover-situation-on-belarus-border\/","title":{"rendered":"RSF Protests on Polish Law Against US TV Channel &#038; Banning Reporters to Cover Situation on Belarus Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11865\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Poland_Media_RSF.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Poland_Media_RSF.png 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Poland_Media_RSF-300x238.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Warsaw: 10 Sep 2021 &#8211; Reporters Without Borders (RSF) declared a press freedom state of emergency in Poland when it went to Warsaw yesterday and participated in a protest in Warsaw against a broadcasting law amendment that implicitly targets the commercial broadcaster <em>TVN<\/em>.<\/h3>\n<p>Submitted to the Polish parliament on 7 July, the amendment would prohibit companies based outside the European Economic Area from holding more than a 49% stake in Polish broadcast media. Any media outlet that failed to comply would be denied a broadcast licence.<\/p>\n<p>Long a target of the Polish government, <em>TVN<\/em> is owned by the US media group Discovery and its news channel,\u00a0<em>TVN24,<\/em> which has been subjected to\u00a0a great deal of harassment,\u00a0could be stripped of its broadcast licence as early as 26 September.<\/p>\n<h3>Discovery has told President Andrzej Duda that it intends to bring legal action if the amendment targeting <em>TVN<\/em> is definitively approved. It would force Discovery to sell the majority of its shares in <em>TVN<\/em>, which could then be bought by government-controlled companies.<\/h3>\n<p>At the same time as it is threatening media independence and pluralism with this amendment, the government imposed draconian restrictions on reporters on 2 September, banning them from going to the border with Belarus to cover the situation there.<\/p>\n<h3>RSF is calling on the authorities to withdraw the broadcasting law amendment that could prevent Poland\u2019s leading TV news channel from renewing its licence.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warsaw: 10 Sep 2021 &#8211; Reporters Without Borders (RSF) declared a press freedom state of emergency in Poland when it went to Warsaw yesterday and participated in a protest in Warsaw against a broadcasting law amendment that implicitly targets the commercial broadcaster TVN. Submitted to the Polish parliament on 7 July, the amendment would prohibit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,46],"tags":[1670,1668,1669,863,179,1060],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11867,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864\/revisions\/11867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}