{"id":3908,"date":"2023-03-30T03:44:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2023-03-30T03:44:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T14:44:12","slug":"deputy-pms-welcome-bill-to-repeal-the-media-act-lop-waiting-for-contents-of-the-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3908","title":{"rendered":"Deputy PMs welcome Bill to repeal the Media Act, LOP waiting for contents of the Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Prime Ministers in the coalition government say it is only right that the Media Industry Development Act 2010 is fully repealed while the Leader of the Opposition has not made his stance known for now.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Professor Biman Prasad says it is a great decision to repeal the Media Act as it will allow the media industry in Fiji to develop its own regulatory mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>He says the Media Act was designed to stop the media from holding the government to account, stop the media from critically analyzing the issues on the ground and also stop the media from expressing the views of the public.<\/p>\n<p>He says when they were in the opposition, they always opposed the Media Decree which was later on converted into an Act and was done by the previous military government where it continued to treat the media to this day with contempt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE FIJI VILLAGE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Prime Ministers in the coalition government say it is only right that the Media Industry Development Act 2010 is fully repealed while the Leader of the Opposition has not made his stance known for now. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Professor Biman Prasad says it is a great decision to repeal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiji-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3910,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3908\/revisions\/3910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}