{"id":34911,"date":"2015-01-13T21:01:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=34911"},"modified":"2015-01-13T21:01:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:01:58","slug":"edo-govt-withdraws-itvs-accreditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/edo-govt-withdraws-itvs-accreditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo Govt \u00a0withdraws ITV&#8217;s accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Edo State Government has withdrawn the accreditation of the Correspondent and Cameraman of the Independent Television (ITV) attached to the Government House, for the TV station\u2019s unprofessional reportage of news and events aimed at deliberately misinforming the people on the government\u2019s programmes and activities.<\/div>\n<div>\nIn a letter to the General Manager, Independent Television (ITV), Benin City, owned by Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, Special Adviser to the Governor, Prince Kassim Afegbua said: \u201cYou will recall our earlier discussion with you on the series of fabricated and adversarial reportage of issues in the state which has continued to misinform, misrepresent and confuse the people of the State.<\/div>\n<div>\n\u201cAs you know, these deliberate false reports which have become your editorial policy offend the ethics of broadcast journalism and the code of conduct spelt out by the National Broadcasting Commission [NBC].<\/div>\n<div>\n\u201cIn view of the above, we are withdrawing the accreditation of your correspondent earlier attached to Government House with immediate effect.\u201d<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Edo State Government has withdrawn the accreditation of the Correspondent and Cameraman of the Independent Television (ITV) attached to the Government House, for the TV station\u2019s unprofessional reportage of news&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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