{"id":178368,"date":"2024-08-12T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T07:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-hollows-out-its-media-landscape-ahead-of-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T07:26:11","slug":"tunisia-hollows-out-its-media-landscape-ahead-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-hollows-out-its-media-landscape-ahead-of-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia Hollows Out Its Media Landscape Ahead of Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\"><em>Clampdown Stifles Diverse Voices, Political Debate <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">When veteran journalist Elyes Gharbi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MidiShowByMosaiqueFM\/videos\/1561164954469194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> on June 28 that he was leaving the &#8220;Midi Show&#8221; on Tunisia&#8217;s leading radio station, Mosa\u00efque FM, after nine years, he did not explain why. However, Gharbi&#8217;s decision came just months after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SQhI0JazfJk&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Frealites.com.tn%2F&amp;source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&amp;feature=emb_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acknowledged<\/a> &#8220;unbelievable threats&#8221; against journalism in the country and a year after police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeuneafrique.com\/1447283\/politique\/en-tunisie-la-convocation-de-deux-journalistes-inquiete-et-indigne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigated<\/a> him for comments made on the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"85\">As Tunisia gears up for its first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/7\/3\/tunisias-saied-sets-presidential-election-date-for-october-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">presidential election<\/a> since&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408120080.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clampdown Stifles Diverse Voices, Political Debate When veteran journalist Elyes Gharbi announced on June 28 that he was leaving the &#8220;Midi Show&#8221; on Tunisia&#8217;s leading radio station, Mosa\u00efque FM, after nine years, he did not explain why. However, Gharbi&#8217;s decision came just months after he acknowledged &#8220;unbelievable threats&#8221; against journalism in the country and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":178369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621819:51e09fe0c28f665fab370ed8d841f135:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,7019,821,49266,20883,4959,257,254,4703,653],"class_list":["post-178368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-elections","tag-hollows","tag-landscape","tag-media","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621819:51e09fe0c28f665fab370ed8d841f135:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178368","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}