{"id":279562,"date":"2019-06-21T08:32:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T12:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=279562"},"modified":"2019-06-21T08:32:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T12:32:17","slug":"esat-journalists-fire-back-on-former-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279562","title":{"rendered":"ESAT journalists fire back on former colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zierf1f6Nuo<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian Satellite Television and Radio (ESAT) has been an influential media in the struggle for the recent changes in Ethiopia. With offices in the USA and Ethiopia, ESAT has been on the air for nine years. However, the media powerhouse is facing challenges of its own after a fallout among the members and journalists. The controversy surrounding\u00a0that Ginbot\u00a07 owns the station and several journalists were fired due to political differences further increased the debate. ESAT members have divided into groups, and each has its own version of the argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zierf1f6Nuo Ethiopian Satellite Television and Radio (ESAT) has been an influential media in the struggle for the recent changes in Ethiopia. With offices in the USA and Ethiopia, ESAT has been on the air for nine years. However, the media powerhouse is facing challenges of its own after a fallout among the members and journalists. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":273510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[136,942,4889,1124,5063,2099,2991,4898,4932],"class_list":["post-279562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-abebe-gelaw","tag-debate","tag-ermias-legesse","tag-esat","tag-fallout","tag-ginbot-7","tag-ethiopian-news","tag-press","tag-tamagne-beyene"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Ermias-Legesses-prediction-about-appointment-of-new-ministers.jpg?fit=455%2C363&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aJ4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279563,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279562\/revisions\/279563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}