{"id":57691,"date":"2023-05-03T09:01:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T16:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57691"},"modified":"2023-05-03T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T16:01:20","slug":"world-press-freedom-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=57691","title":{"rendered":"World Press Freedom Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>05\/03\/2023 11:45 AM EDT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/p>\n<p>On the\u00a030<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0annual World Press Freedom Day, the United States extends our deep gratitude to the remarkable journalists and media professionals\u00a0around the world\u00a0whose work ensures the flow of information and ideas that form the lifeblood of free and open societies.\u00a0 Today we also reflect on the tremendous sacrifice paid by so many journalists in performing this noble vocation.<\/p>\n<p>Far too many governments use repression to silence free expression, including through reprisals against journalists for simply doing their jobs.\u00a0\u00a0We again call on Russian authorities to immediately release\u00a0<i>Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/i>reporter Evan Gershkovich and all other journalists held for exercising freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>Imprisonment is not the only threat reporters face.\u00a0 Journalists covering violent conflict and corruption are subjected to intimidation and abduction, often perpetrated with impunity.\u00a0 Elsewhere, journalists face discrimination, censorship, and weaponized justice systems.\u00a0 Governments around the world have used various tools of repression to force media outlets to close.<\/p>\n<p>On this World Press Freedom Day, we rededicate ourselves to protecting press freedom at home and promoting it across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-172943083921595151mail_footer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05\/03\/2023 11:45 AM EDT Antony J.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57692,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57691\/revisions\/57692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}