{"id":24247,"date":"2014-02-12T09:55:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T14:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24247"},"modified":"2014-02-12T09:55:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T14:55:15","slug":"indias-unhappy-relationship-with-the-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/12\/indias-unhappy-relationship-with-the-free-press\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s unhappy relationship with the free press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report from Reporters Without Borders has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/indiarealtime\/2014\/02\/12\/india-among-the-worlds-worst-for-press-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">India at the 140th rank<\/a> (of 180 countries surveyed) for freedom of the press:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The world\u2019s largest democracy remains one of the most restrictive places for the press.<\/p>\n<p>In a report published Wednesday, Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based nonprofit, ranked India 140th out of 180 countries surveyed for the free speech it affords the media. This was a one-point jump from the country\u2019s 2013 ranking, when it recorded its steepest fall on the annual-list since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, acting on an agreement chalked out by a Delhi court, one of India\u2019s largest publishing houses withdrew a 2009 book that reinterprets Hinduism, the latest instance of a book being removed from circulation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The authors of Wednesday\u2019s report singled out the insurgency in the disputed territory of Kashmir, where channels of communications, including telephone lines, satellite televisions and the Internet, are routinely suspended in response to unrest, as well as the killings of eight journalists in 2013, for India\u2019s lowly press freedom ranking. The killings included those of Jitendra Singh, a freelancer in the eastern state of Jharkhand, who documented Maoist activists in the state, and that of Rakesh Sharma, a Hindi newspaper reporter who was shot dead in Uttar Pradesh, India\u2019s most populous state, in August.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report from Reporters Without Borders has India at the 140th rank (of 180 countries surveyed) for freedom of the press: The world\u2019s largest democracy remains one of the most restrictive places for the press. In a report published Wednesday, Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based nonprofit, ranked India 140th out of 180 countries surveyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[32,23,10,28],"tags":[459,224,213],"class_list":["post-24247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-india","category-liberty","category-media","tag-censorship","tag-freedomofthepress","tag-newspapers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6j5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24248,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24247\/revisions\/24248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}