{"id":207893,"date":"2025-09-22T19:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-journalist-denounces-media-bill-consultations-as-a-pretence\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T19:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:01:16","slug":"mozambique-journalist-denounces-media-bill-consultations-as-a-pretence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-journalist-denounces-media-bill-consultations-as-a-pretence\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Journalist Denounces Media Bill Consultations As &#8216;A Pretence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Maputo \u2014 Senior Mozambican journalist. Tomas Vieira Mario, has denounced the current public consultation on new mass media laws as &#8220;a pretence&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Vieira Mario, cited in the independent daily &#8220;O Pais&#8217;, said the consultations were just a sham, and the final document will merely answer to &#8220;political interests&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">The bill on the media that will go before the country&#8217;s parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, has been re-drafted repeatedly, Vieira Mario did not believe that the current procedure will&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509220034.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Senior Mozambican journalist. Tomas Vieira Mario, has denounced the current public consultation on new mass media laws as &#8220;a pretence&#8217;. Vieira Mario, cited in the independent daily &#8220;O Pais&#8217;, said the consultations were just a sham, and the final document will merely answer to &#8220;political interests&#8217;. The bill on the media that will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630688:83a6d639a375d1043c28e05e9ff37ec0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,7292,8293,8435,7277,4959,4704,682,257,35320,254],"class_list":["post-207893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-consultations","tag-denounces","tag-journalist","tag-media","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-pretence","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630688:83a6d639a375d1043c28e05e9ff37ec0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207893","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=207893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}