{"id":25803,"date":"2011-08-19T15:05:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25803"},"modified":"2011-08-19T15:05:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T14:05:11","slug":"palestine-satirical-tv-show-censored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25803","title":{"rendered":"Palestine: Satirical TV show censored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Index on Censorship - Palestine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/palestine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Palestinian<\/a> attorney general has <a title=\"The Guardian - Satirical Palestinian TV show ordered off air \" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/aug\/19\/palestinian-tv-show-off-air?CMP=twt_gu\" target=\"_blank\">ordered a\u00a0nightly satirical television show<\/a> to be axed, following complaints from public servants and officials that they were being ridiculed.\u00a0Watan ala Water (Country on a String) has become popular\u00a0<a title=\"The Guardian - Palestinian TV satire Watan ala Watar unites political rivals \u2013 in anger \" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/sep\/07\/palestinian-satire-watan-ala-watar?INTCMP=SRCH\" target=\"_blank\">for its mockery of Palestinian leaders<\/a>, officials, corruption, nepotism and social norms. Attorney general\u00a0Ahmad Mughani said the the programme did not &#8220;serve the public interest&#8221;, was &#8220;harmful to Palestinian society&#8221; and had\u00a0crossed &#8220;red lines&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palestinian attorney general has ordered a\u00a0nightly satirical television show to be axed, following complaints from public servants and officials that they were being ridiculed.\u00a0Watan ala Water (Country on a String) has become popular\u00a0for its mockery of Palestinian leaders, officials, corruption, nepotism and social norms. Attorney general\u00a0Ahmad Mughani said the the programme did not &#8220;serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585],"tags":[103,183,683,3671],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25803"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25809,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25803\/revisions\/25809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}