{"id":12234,"date":"2019-03-02T09:47:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T07:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/?p=12234"},"modified":"2019-03-02T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T08:14:00","slug":"citizen-newspaper-lack-of-journalistic-investigative-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/citizen-newspaper-lack-of-journalistic-investigative-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen newspaper: Lack of journalistic investigative skills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Loving Life&#8217; we see how the Citizen Newspaper has again embarrassed itself by their lack of journalistic investigative skills by doing a story that is clearly intended to discredit the &#8220;loving Life&#8217; channel. &#8220;Amazing how blinkered a paper can be when it comes to following their own narrative.&#8221; The lack of credibility of this paper, that completely misses all the great news stories presented on the channel and rather attempts to discredit it, is astonishing.<\/p>\n<p>Willem Petzer has also similarly been attacked by this newspaper for his work in highlighting the crisis in South Africa around farm attacks and farm murders.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today \u2013 South Africa Media<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"0piq6Oxkbj\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/white-squatter-camps-bakkies-needed-to-deliver-maize-meal-gauteng\/\">White squatter camps: Bakkies needed to deliver maize meal, Gauteng<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/white-squatter-camps-bakkies-needed-to-deliver-maize-meal-gauteng\/embed\/#?secret=0piq6Oxkbj\" data-secret=\"0piq6Oxkbj\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;White squatter camps: Bakkies needed to deliver maize meal, Gauteng&#8221; &#8212; South Africa Today - Media\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LUvMR199Qe\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/south-africa-racist-double-standards-is-an-understatement\/\">South Africa: Racist double standards is an understatement!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/south-africa-racist-double-standards-is-an-understatement\/embed\/#?secret=LUvMR199Qe\" data-secret=\"LUvMR199Qe\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;South Africa: Racist double standards is an understatement!&#8221; &#8212; South Africa Today - Media\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Uhrocw36oU\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/willem-petzer-response-to-the-citizens-slander-campaign-against-him\/\">Willem Petzer response to the Citizen&#8217;s slander campaign against him<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/south-africa-video\/political-videos\/willem-petzer-response-to-the-citizens-slander-campaign-against-him\/embed\/#?secret=Uhrocw36oU\" data-secret=\"Uhrocw36oU\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Willem Petzer response to the Citizen&#8217;s slander campaign against him&#8221; &#8212; South Africa Today - Media\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video by &#8216;Loving Life&#8217; we see how the Citizen Newspaper has again embarrassed itself by their lack of journalistic investigative skills by doing a story that is clearly intended to discredit the &#8220;loving Life&#8217; channel. &#8220;Amazing how blinkered a paper can be when it comes to following their own narrative.&#8221; The lack of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12238,"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":[7737,7733,7736,28,29,7734,7735,5432,677,5325],"class_list":["post-12234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-videos","tag-citizen-credibility","tag-citizen-newspaper","tag-credibility","tag-farm-attacks","tag-farm-murders","tag-journalistic","tag-journalistic-investigative-skills","tag-loving-life","tag-newspaper","tag-willem-petzer","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234","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=12234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}