{"id":77595,"date":"2016-08-19T11:57:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T10:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=77595"},"modified":"2017-03-17T14:48:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:48:33","slug":"means-gawkers-demise-blow-media-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=77595","title":{"rendered":"The means of Gawker&#8217;s demise is a blow to media freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The manner in which <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/gawker-com-to-end-operations-next-week-1785455712\">Gawker<\/a> &#8212; love it or loathe it &#8212; has been shuttered is a significant blow to media freedom. The US site will close down after being forced into bankruptcy through a lawsuit funded by billionaire Peter Thiel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one should be able to shut down a news provider simply by using the power of their wealth. That is why Index on Censorship fought so hard to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/10\/libel-reform-a-final-push\/\">reform libel laws in the UK<\/a>. A free and pluralistic press is essential to democracy,&#8221; Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of Index on Censorship, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The manner in which Gawker &#8212; love it or loathe it &#8212; has been shuttered is a significant blow to media freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":75655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[366,9059,6534],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77595"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77595"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77602,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77595\/revisions\/77602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}