{"id":26623,"date":"2011-09-12T12:45:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T11:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26623"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:54:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:54:45","slug":"united-kingdom-fa-introduce-censorship-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26623","title":{"rendered":"UK: FA introduces &#8220;censorship code&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Censoring staff is Wembley way\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-2035756\/CHARLES-SALE-Censoring-staff-Wembley-way.html#ixzz1Xj9VSIhb\" target=\"_blank\">FA has brought in a code of conduct<\/a> to prevent staff, board and council members talking freely to the press. The new &#8220;censorship code&#8221; insists that the press office are alerted to any media enquiries, and no FA business is to be divulged to the press. The code, which was introduced by company secretary Alistair McLean, also restricts what can be relayed by councillors to bodies they represent. The move comes after FA chairman David Bernstein <a title=\"The FA - FA statement: FIFA Congress \" href=\"http:\/\/www.thefa.com\/TheFA\/NewsAndFeatures\/2011\/FA-statement-fifa-010611\" target=\"_blank\">called for a transparent football government<\/a> against FIFA corruption\u00a0at the Congress in Zurich last June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FA has brought in a code of conduct to prevent staff, board and council members talking freely to the press. The new &#8220;censorship code&#8221; insists that the press office are alerted to any media enquiries, and no FA business is to be divulged to the press. The code, which was introduced by company secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[584,585,581],"tags":[3788,3789,574,2469],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26623"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26623"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79168,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26623\/revisions\/79168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}