{"id":37498,"date":"2021-07-06T23:17:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T23:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=37498"},"modified":"2021-07-06T23:17:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T23:17:28","slug":"india-covid-19-the-community-radio-station-fighting-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=37498","title":{"rendered":"India Covid-19: The community radio station fighting fake news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Radio Mewat has been around for decades in Haryana&#8217;s Nuh district, a region locally known as Mewat, spreading awareness about various things, from primary healthcare to gender rights. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">So when Covid-19 struck, its staff also took on the challenge of fighting fake news so people would follow safety protocols and take their jabs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Sohrab Khan, who has worked at Radio Mewat for a decade, said it&#8217;s been a challenge, but their efforts paid off when people began taking the threat posed by the virus seriously.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video by Piyush Nagpal and Kinjal Pandya-Wagh<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-57635763\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Mewat has been around for decades in Haryana&#8217;s Nuh district, a region locally known as Mewat, spreading awareness about various things, from primary healthcare to gender rights. So when Covid-19 struck, its staff also took on the challenge of fighting fake news so people would follow safety protocols and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/119117155_p09mqny2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}