{"id":205300,"date":"2017-04-01T09:58:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T07:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=205300"},"modified":"2017-04-01T09:59:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T07:59:13","slug":"petition-for-dstv-to-remove-ann7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/205300-petition-for-dstv-to-remove-ann7.html","title":{"rendered":"Petition for DStv to remove ANN7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DStv subscribers have started a petition to remove the ANN7 news channel from DStv.<\/p>\n<p>Petitioners are condemning the channel&#8217;s biased coverage of political events and are demanding that MultiChoice remove the Gupta-owned news channel from DStv&#8217;s offerings.<\/p>\n<p>According to the petition page, the channel is creating divisions in South Africa due to its biased reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers who signed the petition have voiced their displeasure with ANN7&#8217;s coverage, saying &#8220;it is a propaganda station, we should not have to pay for it&#8221; and &#8220;DStv must not aid fake news&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The petition is available to sign on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petitions24.com\/signatures\/dstv_must_remove_ann7\/\" target=\"_blank\">Petitions24<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/197299-guptas-want-new-daily-newspaper-funded-by-taxpayers-report.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Guptas want new daily newspaper funded by taxpayers \u2013 Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DStv subscribers have started a petition to remove the ANN7 news channel from DStv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":159544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[20305,85,475,42320],"class_list":["post-205300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-ann7","tag-dstv","tag-multichoice","tag-petition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205302,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205300\/revisions\/205302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}