{"id":5865,"date":"2009-07-01T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T17:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2009-07-01T09:52:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T17:52:37","slug":"flashback-honduras-may-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/01\/flashback-honduras-may-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Honduras, May 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the extreme right-wing BBC, so take it with a grain of salt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/6690217.stm\">Honduras TV gets government order<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has ordered all the country&#8217;s TV and radio stations to carry government propaganda for two hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>He says that the short-term measure is necessary because of unfair coverage of his government.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Zelaya recently accused the owners of the country&#8217;s news media of exploiting political and social problems in Honduras to get rich.<\/p>\n<p>He won elections in November 2005, but has poor relations with the media.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Mr Zelaya unsuccessfully tried to get Congress to ban the publication of reports on violent crime &#8211; a massive problem in Honduras.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Military tactics?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, in this latest measure he has imposed his will on the country&#8217;s media outlets. <\/p>\n<p>From Monday, 28 May, hundreds of TV and radio channels will be forced to broadcast simultaneous interviews with him and with government ministers.<\/p>\n<p>The aim, said Mr Zelaya, was to allow them to explain a series of projects and measures which are underway, and in so doing counteract what he called misinformation about his government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The country&#8217;s main journalists&#8217; union immediately called on the president to revoke his decision, in which he has employed special powers rarely used by democratically-elected governments.<\/p>\n<p>The union compared the move to the military governments which ruled Honduras until the early 1980s. <\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But you know journalists&#8217; unions \u00e2\u20ac\u201c buncha reactionary running dogs\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/30\/you-and-whose-army\/#IDComment25951132\">being a fascist<\/a> and all, I have no side in this dispute, but could we all chill with the instant canonization of obscure political figures none of us knew anything about a week ago?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the extreme right-wing BBC, so take it with a grain of salt: Honduras TV gets government order Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has ordered all the country&#8217;s TV and radio stations to carry government propaganda for two hours a day. He says that the short-term measure is necessary because of unfair coverage of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honduras"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5874,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions\/5874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}