{"id":176613,"date":"2024-07-15T14:16:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T12:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-batswana-insist-on-media-freedom-favor-citizens-right-to-govt-information\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T14:16:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T12:16:33","slug":"botswana-batswana-insist-on-media-freedom-favor-citizens-right-to-govt-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-batswana-insist-on-media-freedom-favor-citizens-right-to-govt-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Batswana Insist On Media Freedom, Favor Citizens&#8217; Right to Govt Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Only half see their country&#8217;s media as &#8216;somewhat&#8217; or &#8216;completely&#8217; free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About three-quarters (76%) of Batswana say the media should &#8220;constantly investigate and report on government mistakes and corruption.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A similar share (77%) insist on media freedom, while 20% say the government should have the right to prevent the publication of things it disapproves of.<\/li>\n<li>In particular, strong majorities endorse the proposition that specific types of information be made publicly available,&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407150002.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only half see their country&#8217;s media as &#8216;somewhat&#8217; or &#8216;completely&#8217; free. Key findings About three-quarters (76%) of Batswana say the media should &#8220;constantly investigate and report on government mistakes and corruption.&#8221; A similar share (77%) insist on media freedom, while 20% say the government should have the right to prevent the publication of things it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":176614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,7917,4718,2462,7604,24945,7636,4357,422,9597,4959,257,254],"class_list":["post-176613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-batswana","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-citizens","tag-favor","tag-freedom","tag-govt","tag-information","tag-insist","tag-media","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}