{"id":202568,"date":"2022-10-13T00:16:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=202568"},"modified":"2022-10-13T00:16:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:46:49","slug":"sit-in-by-media-houses-in-manipur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/10\/13\/sit-in-by-media-houses-in-manipur\/","title":{"rendered":"Sit-in by media houses in Manipur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Imphal, Oct 12 (PTI) Media houses in Manipur staged a sit-in in the capital town here on Wednesday to protest against what they called the &#8220;undue interference&#8221; by a student body in its activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Media activities in the state were suspended since Monday night after a student organisation raised objection over the publication of a news item related to it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senior journalist Brown Nongmaithem told PTI &#8220;Interference over the working of the media in the state has always been there. The media fraternity wants a permanent solution to such dictatorial attitude from any group so that the press can continue its work without fear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The protest was held under the aegis of All Manipur Working Journalists Union (AMWJU), the Editors Guild and Manipur Hill Journalists Union.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Placards stating &#8220;Do not interfere in the independence of the press&#8221; were seen during the protest. PTI<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imphal, Oct 12 (PTI) Media houses in Manipur staged a sit-in in the capital town here on Wednesday to protest against what they called the &#8220;undue interference&#8221; by a student body in its activities. Media activities in the state were suspended since Monday night after a student organisation raised objection over the publication of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-202568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202568","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=202568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}