{"id":10216,"date":"2018-09-07T07:44:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T05:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/?p=10216"},"modified":"2018-09-07T07:44:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T05:44:33","slug":"simon-roche-for-this-reason-beware-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/simon-roche-for-this-reason-beware-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Roche: For this reason &#8216;beware the media&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Suidlanders Media&#8217; Simon Roche discusses &#8220;how the mainstream media is by no means an independent force. It has blatantly chosen sides. They have no concern for the truth. And alternative news sites on social media and other platforms are making great strides in exposing this&#8221;. Simon looks at the influence and power that the media has in creating perceptions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mainstream media will have to pay more attention to the real issues as the word and truth gets out via alternative news and media sites and platforms, but be cautious as they are cunning and will twist what you have to say and turn it against you&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today \u2013 South Africa Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Suidlanders Media&#8217; Simon Roche discusses &#8220;how the mainstream media is by no means an independent force. It has blatantly chosen sides. They have no concern for the truth. And alternative news sites on social media and other platforms are making great strides in exposing this&#8221;. Simon looks at the influence and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[6195,4761,6194,168,1955,6127,5234],"class_list":["post-10216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-videos","tag-alternative-news-sites","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media-truth","tag-news","tag-social-media","tag-suidlanders-media","tag-truth","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}