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    "data": {
        "id": 1401030,
        "msgid": "parroting-reports-1447893297",
        "date": "1998-05-22 00:00:00",
        "title": "Parroting reports",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Parroting reports After private TV stations Indosiar, ANteve, SCTV, RCTI and TPI gave accurate and interesting information on events in Indonesia earlier this month, the government, in this case state TV station TVRI, apparently felt it had been left behind by private TV stations. So, in order that interesting reports may not be enjoyed by viewers, Minister of Information Alwi Dahlan took the initiative and announced there would be a TV pool comprising TVRI and private TV stations.",
        "content": "<p>Parroting reports<\/p>\n<p>After private TV stations Indosiar, ANteve, SCTV, RCTI and TPI<br>\ngave accurate and interesting information on events in Indonesia<br>\nearlier this month, the government, in this case state TV station<br>\nTVRI, apparently felt it had been left behind by private TV<br>\nstations. So, in order that interesting reports may not be<br>\nenjoyed by viewers, Minister of Information Alwi Dahlan took the<br>\ninitiative and announced there would be a TV pool comprising TVRI<br>\nand private TV stations.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, 6 a.m. news reports are parroted. The reports go<br>\nthrough government censorship. The reports are repeated several<br>\ntimes. Stale news is broadcast again and again. Obviously this<br>\nbecomes very boring and the news reports have lost their<br>\nsignificance.<\/p>\n<p>Creative freedom in reporting has disappeared altogether. I<br>\nopenly lodge a protest against the decision of the information<br>\nminister, who has \"castrated\" the reporting of topical news in<br>\nIndonesia. Where are you headed TVRI?<\/p>\n<p>If this condition continues, I'm afraid TV viewers will shift<br>\nto other sources for local news.<\/p>\n<p>Radio reports, for example, especially when given live, will<br>\nattract more listeners. The BBC, ABC, VOA and others have<br>\nreported events happening in Indonesia. Although we only hear the<br>\nreports, we do so attentively. And then we try to imagine the<br>\nactual happenings. Imagining things can sometimes give greater<br>\nexcitement and enjoyment than seeing them with our own eyes. So,<br>\nif TVRI and private TV stations decide to go on with the kind of<br>\nreporting they are doing now, goodbye to television. There is a<br>\nmore effective source of news, namely from mouth to mouth. This<br>\nis sometimes more reliable. Besides, there are still newspapers.<br>\nThank God, newspaper reports are still the darling of readers.<\/p>\n<p>GUS-TYANA<\/p>\n<p>Cikampek, West Java<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/parroting-reports-1447893297",
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