{"id":30452,"date":"2011-10-07T00:07:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T04:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=30452"},"modified":"2011-10-07T00:07:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T04:07:10","slug":"imc-rates-characters-of-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=30452","title":{"rendered":"IMC Rates Characters of Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Independent Media Commission (IMC) second edition of \u2018Media Watch e-bulletin\u2019 published October 3<sup>rd<\/sup> defines the journalistic characters of 10 newspapers in Freetown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The research looked at the various elements or building blocks that make up a news story, report or program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also looked at the newspapers\u2019 abiding attitudes to the uniqueness of accuracy, balance and credibility (ABC) in the reportage of stories generally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To this, came the IMC\u2019s grading of the following newspapers: For Di People, Awoko, Awareness Times, Standard Times, Premier News, The Democrat, Stand Firm, Sierra Express Media, Concord Times, and New Vision, using the graph below.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMC-media-watch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30455\" title=\"IMC media watch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMC-media-watch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Media Commission (IMC) second edition of \u2018Media Watch e-bulletin\u2019 published October 3rd defines the journalistic characters of 10 newspapers in Freetown. The research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,673,1],"tags":[1267,5492],"class_list":["post-30452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-national-news","category-uncategorized","tag-sierra-leone-media","tag-sierra-leone-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}