{"id":373692,"date":"2018-08-16T23:11:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T22:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-senate-adopts-resolution-supporting-media\/"},"modified":"2018-08-16T23:11:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T22:11:31","slug":"presstv-us-senate-adopts-resolution-supporting-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-senate-adopts-resolution-supporting-media\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US Senate adopts resolution supporting media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States Senate has adopted a resolution affirming support for a free press and declaring that \u201cthe press is not the enemy of the people.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US Senate on Thursday unanimously approved the non-binding resolution by voice vote, reafirming the essential role of media uncovering the truth and delivering information.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The resolution \u201creaffirms the vital and indispensable role that the free press serves to inform the electorate, uncover the truth, act as a check on the inherent power of the government, further national discourse and debate, and otherwise advance the most basic and cherished democratic norms and freedoms of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately comment on the Senate action.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has frequently called media &#8220;fake news&#8221; and reporters \u201cthe enemy of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The resolution is a rebuke to the president in support of more than 300 news publications across the country who&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/16\/571394\/US-Senate-Media-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Senate has adopted a resolution affirming support for a free press and declaring that \u201cthe press is not the enemy of the people.\u201d The US Senate on Thursday unanimously approved the non-binding resolution by voice vote, reafirming the essential role of media uncovering the truth and delivering information.\u00a0The resolution \u201creaffirms the vital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}