{"id":20226,"date":"2020-03-18T13:46:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T13:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/?p=20226"},"modified":"2020-03-18T13:46:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T13:46:47","slug":"state-of-emergency-and-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/newsroom\/2020\/03\/18\/20226\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarifications related to the State of Emergency and the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">\u201cThe media cannot publish any info on cases of Coronavirus spread inside and outside Armenia, the health state of infected people, as well as persons that have contacted them,\u201d deputy Minister of Justice Vahe Danielyan told reporters on March 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">\u201cThe media should report only official info, duplicating it to the extent possible and making reference to that information. Official info is the info presented by the commandant,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Danielyan also said that some serious cases had been observed related to the activities of the media. The Government has discussed these cases with the editors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">He stated that the media could be accountable for not observing the legal regime, according to the law on administrative offences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">This is related only to physical and legal entities, including the social media, and cases of Coronavirus, the health state of infected people, as well as persons that have contacted them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Danielyan said that the police was authorized to deal with all the violations in the social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Comments on the international newsfeed, as well as info on the events happening worldwide cannot be included in the local newsfeed, especially if they are considered panic-provoking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">This also refers to the information obtained from international science magazines, recognized experts, doctors, scientists, as well as other sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">As an example, the deputy minister mentioned the international story on food safety (which has nothing to do with Coronavirus), \u201cThis is panic-provoking info, regardless of the references to news sources.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\" align=\"right\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\">Gayane Asryan<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe media cannot publish any info on cases of Coronavirus spread inside and outside Armenia, the health state of infected people, as well as persons that have contacted them,\u201d deputy Minister of Justice Vahe Danielyan told reporters on March 17. \u201cThe media should report only official info, duplicating it to the extent possible and making<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/newsroom\/2020\/03\/18\/20226\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":20204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom","author_posts-gayane-asryan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20232,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20226\/revisions\/20232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}