{"id":86831,"date":"2013-09-13T13:46:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T11:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=86831"},"modified":"2013-09-16T10:31:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T08:31:37","slug":"media-must-be-protected-public-protector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/86831-media-must-be-protected-public-protector.html","title":{"rendered":"Media must be protected: Public Protector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s media needs to be protected, Public Protector <a title=\"Thuli Madonsela\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/417156-Thuli-Madonsela\">Thuli Madonsela<\/a> said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The media helps to keep democracy alive, though they sometimes get it wrong,&#8221; she told an Association of Independent Publishers conference in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What a sad day it would be that corruption were to continue because there was no media to inform us of it. Let us protect the media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Madonsela said it was society&#8217;s duty to protect the independence of the media, and indicated that the media helped her office perform its core functions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The media is the most effective accountability mechanism, as in the world it watches closely over those that exercise power in public platforms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More general tech news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/86793-hacker-steals-data-of-two-million-vodafone-customers.html\">Vodafone hacked: data from two million accounts stolen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/86757-yahoo-climbs-to-800-million-users.html\">Yahoo climbs to 800 million users<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/86719-smart-cars-the-new-frontier-for-auto-industry.html\">Smart cars the new frontier for auto industry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/86709-dstv-revenge-claim-billionaire-strikes-back.html\">DStv revenge claim: billionaire strikes back<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s media needs to be protected, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":86833,"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":[17],"tags":[16114,21407,11381,7979,10396],"class_list":["post-86831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-press-freedom","tag-public-protector","tag-quicknews","tag-thuli-madonsela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86831"}],"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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86835,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86831\/revisions\/86835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}