{"id":137185,"date":"2020-09-17T02:29:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T20:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=137185"},"modified":"2020-09-17T02:29:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T20:59:53","slug":"jfa-seeks-more-accountability-from-media-appreciates-arunachal-times-for-responsible-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/09\/17\/jfa-seeks-more-accountability-from-media-appreciates-arunachal-times-for-responsible-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"JFA seeks more accountability from media, appreciates Arunachal Times for responsible behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GUWAHATI, Sep 16:<\/strong> The Journalists&#8217; Forum Assam (JFA) has said that newspapers, news channels and digital media outlets should come clean on their employees turned positive for Covid-19 as accountable institutions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Now almost everybody knows that over a hundred media employees based in Guwahati tested positive for Covid-19 and most of them have recovered. Many of them have already revealed their health status individually in the social media,&#8221; said the scribe&#8217;s forum, adding: &#8216;however, the appalling development has not been properly reported by any media group in the pre-historic city seemingly to hide vital information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The forum has appreciated The Arunachal Times for its responsible conduct while dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic as some of its employees turned positive for the novel coronavirus infection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the first incident in the region where a newspaper management voluntarily came forward declaring the corona infection to its employees and also asking the visitors to its office on previous days for necessary virus screenings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;When the media insists on responsible conducts from others, The Arunachal Times has shown the way, which is otherwise unusual to most media houses in the region,&#8221; said JFA president Rupam Barua and secretary Nava Thakuria in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI, Sep 16: The Journalists&#8217; Forum Assam (JFA) has said that newspapers, news channels and digital media outlets should come clean on their employees turned positive for Covid-19 as accountable institutions. &#8220;Now almost everybody knows that over a hundred media employees based in Guwahati tested positive for Covid-19 and most of them have recovered. Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-137185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}