{"id":77668,"date":"2016-03-15T02:13:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T02:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=77668"},"modified":"2016-03-15T02:13:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T02:13:38","slug":"deputy-minister-urges-journalists-for-balanced-accurate-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=77668","title":{"rendered":"Deputy minister urges journalists for balanced, accurate information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, Theo Nicol, has entreated media practitioners to fully utilize the Right to Access Information Commission as a potent tool for balanced and accurate information to the public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He disclosed that since the inception of the Commission only thirty requests with one complaint have been sent to the Commission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Minister said media practitioners advocated for the right to access information for ten years and it is about time they started good use of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He lauded the efforts of the Information Ministry and the Right to Access Information Commission to complete the drafting of the Open Data Potter Policy consisting of 140 pages.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, Theo Nicol, has entreated media practitioners to fully utilize the Right to Access Information Commission as a potent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,745],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-life-and-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77668","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=77668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77668\/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=77668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}