{"id":8066,"date":"2017-05-04T01:23:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T01:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/time-for-critical-minds\/"},"modified":"2017-05-04T01:23:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T01:23:41","slug":"time-for-critical-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/newsroom\/2017\/05\/04\/8066\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for Critical Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 3 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/pressfreedomday\/\">World Press Freedom Day<\/a>. It\u2019s an opportunity to remember that being free is a great responsibility and a daily struggle.<\/p>\n<p>The theme for 2017 World Press Freedom Day is \u201cCritical Minds for Critical Times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UN Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres in his message said: \u201cJournalists go to the most dangerous places to give voice to the voiceless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Armenia, journalists\u2019 work is stressful not just in crisis situations. The elections, <a href=\"http:\/\/media.am\/en\/Attacks-against-journalists-during-Electric-Yerevan\">Electric Yerevan<\/a> protest, April War, <a href=\"http:\/\/media.am\/en\/attack-on-journalists-sari-tagh\">capture of a Yerevan police station<\/a> \u2014 all were dangerous and accountable work days for journalists. But critical thinking and making quick decisions are no less important in everyday work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>World Press Freedom Day symbolizes journalists\u2019 unobstructed work and the guarantee of pluralism.<\/p>\n<p>The hashtags used in social media posts about this day are #pressfreedom and #WPFD2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteright\"><strong>Gegham Vardanyan<br \/>\nPhotos by Sona Kocharyan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. It\u2019s an opportunity to remember that being free is a great responsibility and a daily struggle. The theme for 2017 World Press Freedom Day is \u201cCritical Minds for Critical Times.\u201d UN Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres in his message said: \u201cJournalists go to the most dangerous places to give<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/newsroom\/2017\/05\/04\/8066\/\"> Read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3071,"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-8066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom","author_posts-gegham-vardanyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}