{"id":327,"date":"2010-06-03T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2010\/06\/03\/j-jeeroburkhan\/"},"modified":"2010-06-03T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:54:13","slug":"j-jeeroburkhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/j-jeeroburkhan\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Jeeroburkhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Le pouvoir et la presse : un lien \u00e0 soigner, mais \u00e0 d\u00e9mystifier aussi<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>JOONEED JEEROBURKHAN<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Une belle expression de foi journalistique au sein de la d\u00e9mocratie parlementaire se dessine ces jours-ci \u00e0 Maurice sur la crise dans les relations entre le nouveau gouvernement et l\u2019entreprise de presse La Sentinelle.   <!--more-->  <span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><font size=\"3\"><font color=\"#000000\"> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <\/font><\/font><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><font size=\"3\"> <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">La solidarit\u00e9 n\u2019est pas autant \u00e0 g\u00e9om\u00e9trie variable qu\u2019elle l\u2019\u00e9tait &#8212;<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>il n\u2019y a pas si longtemps. On se souvient de la pol\u00e9mique entre Jean Claude de l\u2019Estrac et Gilbert Ahnee, o\u00f9 celui-ci avait versifi\u00e9 sa riposte \u00e0 la Cyrano. C\u2019est vrai qu\u2019ils coursent d\u00e9sormais pour la m\u00eame \u00e9curie.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cette solidarit\u00e9, que RV a renforc\u00e9e dans le Mauritius Times, a fait d\u00e9faut en 2005, nous rappelle \u00e9loquemment Kiran Ramsahaye, quand Le Matinal fut victime du boycottage du gouvernement B\u00e9renger-Jugnauth sur fond de rumeurs malveillantes v\u00e9hicul\u00e9es dans d\u2019autres m\u00e9dias.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dans Le D\u00e9fi, Subash Gobine sugg\u00e8re que le ressentiment anti-BBR du patron de La Sentinelle est dirig\u00e9 davantage contre le MSM des Jugnauth que contre Navin Ramgoolam lui-m\u00eame. Et il d\u00e9plore les relations incestueuses entre la presse et le pouvoir, relations dont le patron de La Sentinelle incarne chez nous un symbole sans pareil.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Presse priv\u00e9e et non presse \u00ab libre \u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">C\u2019est dire que les contradictions persistent malgr\u00e9 tout. Car les diff\u00e9rents m\u00e9dias restent des concurrents, souvent au service d\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eats divergents, sinon oppos\u00e9s. Ils sont comme des partis politiques qui se battraient contre un renvoi des \u00e9lections sans pour autant cesser de se combattre entre eux \u2013 bien au contraire.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cela m&#8217;am\u00e8ne \u00e0 relever que si l&#8217;on parle volontiers de \u00ab libert\u00e9 de presse \u00bb, on traduit erron\u00e9ment ce concept quand on l&#8217;\u00e9tire pour parler de \u00ab presse libre \u00bb.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">En d\u00e9mocratie parlementaire, le syst\u00e8me politique qui va de pair avec une \u00e9conomie de march\u00e9 appel\u00e9e \u00ab libre entreprise \u00bb, les mots \u00ab libert\u00e9 \u00bb et \u00ab libres \u00bb ont une forte connotation id\u00e9ologique dirig\u00e9e contre toute intervention de l&#8217;\u00c9tat pour promouvoir plus de justice sociale \u2013 un but que certains m\u00e9dias peuvent aussi poursuivre, soit dit en passant.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mais il n&#8217;existe pas de presse \u00ab libre \u00bb ni m\u00eame de presse \u00ab ind\u00e9pendante \u00bb (de quoi et de qui?, il faudrait le pr\u00e9ciser). Il existe par contre une presse \u00ab priv\u00e9e \u00bb, car elle rel\u00e8ve du \u00ab secteur priv\u00e9 \u00bb &#8211; et La Sentinelle peut \u00e0 juste titre dire ces jours-ci qu&#8217;elle est \u00ab priv\u00e9e \u00bb de fonds publics!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Id\u00e9ologie et propagande<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cette presse priv\u00e9e, que j&#8217;ai servie pendant 40 ans au Canada, est tr\u00e8s friande des mots \u00ab libert\u00e9 \u00bb et \u00ab v\u00e9rit\u00e9 \u00bb, des mots qui me font tiquer justement \u00e0 cause de leur charge id\u00e9ologique, de leur saveur propagandiste et moralisatrice, voire de leur incitation au conformisme. Je pr\u00e9f\u00e8re ainsi dire \u00ab information factuelle, honn\u00eate et \u00e9quilibr\u00e9e \u00bb au lieu de dire \u00ab v\u00e9rit\u00e9 \u00bb et \u00ab objectivit\u00e9 \u00bb absolues.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dans le cadre de la d\u00e9mocratie parlementaire, l&#8217;\u00e9vocation de la \u00ab libert\u00e9 de presse \u00bb, la \u00ab libert\u00e9 d&#8217;expression \u00bb et de la publication de \u00ab la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 \u00bb dans des pol\u00e9miques contre l&#8217;intervention de l&#8217;\u00c9tat est aussi un outil de la wedge politics &#8212; qui consiste \u00e0 enfoncer un coin provocateur dans l&#8217;opinion publique pour polariser les citoyens, en p\u00e9riode \u00e9lectorale surtout, et pour les contraindre \u00e0 se ranger dans un camp ou dans l&#8217;autre.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Navin Ramgoolam n&#8217;a pas agi diff\u00e9remment en \u00e9voquant le retour de la peine de mort et en mena\u00e7ant La Sentinelle durant la campagne. Lui aussi reprochait \u00e0 L\u2019Express et consorts de manipuler \u00ab la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 \u00bb.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Information et d\u00e9sinformation<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cela dit, aucune soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de droit citoyenne ne saurait tol\u00e9rer que le pouvoir ferme la porte aux m\u00e9dias, surtout quand il s&#8217;agit de conf\u00e9rences, de presses ou autres, destin\u00e9es \u00e0 \u00e9clairer le peuple sur ses intentions.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Le droit du public \u00e0 l&#8217;information est un article fondamental du tandem \u00ab d\u00e9mocratie parlementaire\/\u00e9conomie de march\u00e9 \u00bb &#8211; m\u00eame si le public y est, trop souvent, mal inform\u00e9, et m\u00eame, de plus en plus, d\u00e9sinform\u00e9.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">La propagande (mensonges, demi-v\u00e9rit\u00e9s, choix arbitraires de sujets, de faits et d\u2019images) est ins\u00e9parable de la vie collective. \u00ab Truth is the first casualty in war \u00bb, dit-on depuis Eschyle et Sun Tzu. Comment oublier les mensonges de Bush et Blair sur l\u2019Irak, qui ont tant discr\u00e9dit\u00e9 les grands m\u00e9dias priv\u00e9s, et complaisants, comme le New York Times et la BBC, tout comme ils ont sap\u00e9 le discours officiel de ces porte-parole autoproclam\u00e9s de la soi-disant \u00ab communaut\u00e9 internationale \u00bb ?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Les m\u00e9dias dits \u00ab dominants (mainstream) le sont parce qu\u2019ils s\u2019emploient, de tout temps, \u00e0 d\u00e9fendre et \u00e0 renforcer le statu quo, les int\u00e9r\u00eats dominants et l\u2019Establishment. Le \u00ab war \u00bb d\u2019Eschyle et de Sun Tzu est en fait pour eux une guerre permanente financ\u00e9e par la publicit\u00e9 et la consommation. Noam Chomsky et Edward Herman ont tr\u00e8s bien d\u00e9cortiqu\u00e9 ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne dans Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00ab Domination civilisatrice \u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Les m\u00e9dias occidentaux ont ainsi diffus\u00e9 la propagande Bush-Blair sur l\u2019Irak (et l\u2019Afghanistan) parce que le gros secteur priv\u00e9 (p\u00e9trole, gaz, complexe militaro-industriel) y trouvait son compte, m\u00eame si c\u2019\u00e9tait aux d\u00e9pens de l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat g\u00e9n\u00e9ral (6000+ soldats tu\u00e9s et pr\u00e8s de un billion de $ d\u00e9pens\u00e9s depuis 2001\u2013 soit mille milliards). Et l\u2019id\u00e9ologie de domination continuait de s\u2019imposer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c0 Maurice, toutes proportions gard\u00e9es bien s\u00fbr, La Sentinelle, apr\u00e8s avoir soutenu la lutte pour l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance, s\u2019est rang\u00e9e du c\u00f4t\u00e9 du gros secteur priv\u00e9, traditionnel et nouveau. Du coup, elle a renou\u00e9 avec l\u2019id\u00e9ologie de la domination \u00ab civilisatrice \u00bb &#8211; pourfendant Mugabe, appuyant Rajoelina, ignorant l\u2019excision de Mayotte, se m\u00e9fiant de l\u2019Inde et de la Chine, et vantant l\u2019expansion du capital mauricien au Mozambique et \u00e0 Madagascar. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mais Subash Gobine a fait \u0153uvre utile en exhortant le gouvernement BBR fra\u00eechement \u00e9lu \u00e0 la maturit\u00e9 &#8211; et, du coup, en y conviant les m\u00e9dias aussi. Et RV fait bien de souligner que \u00ab at best,<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>la censure des m\u00e9dias est futile et contre-productive \u00bb.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">La libert\u00e9 d\u2019expression n\u2019est ni un concept neutre ni une abstraction. Elle met en sc\u00e8ne des int\u00e9r\u00eats qui s\u2019opposent, des id\u00e9es et des personnes aussi. C\u2019est dans la pratique qu\u2019elle s\u2019\u00e9panouit et se ma\u00eetrise, une pratique lucide qui chercherait \u00e0 \u00ab former \u00bb en \u00ab informant \u00bb, et non pas \u00e0 endoctriner et \u00e0 droguer bassement l\u2019opinion publique.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>JOONEED JEEROBURKHAN<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le pouvoir et la presse : un lien \u00e0 soigner, mais \u00e0 d\u00e9mystifier aussi \u00a0 JOONEED JEEROBURKHAN\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Une belle expression de foi journalistique au sein de la d\u00e9mocratie parlementaire se dessine ces jours-ci \u00e0 Maurice sur la crise dans les relations entre le nouveau gouvernement et l\u2019entreprise de presse La Sentinelle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-5h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}