{"id":6965,"date":"2013-07-10T09:35:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T09:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6965"},"modified":"2013-07-10T09:35:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T09:35:20","slug":"cnn-denies-exclusive-deal-to-broadcast-mandelas-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6965","title":{"rendered":"CNN denies exclusive deal to broadcast Mandela\u2019s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CNN.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6967\" alt=\"CNN\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CNN.jpeg\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>American broadcaster CNN flatly denies any involvement with a rumored deal between Nelson Mandela\u2019s relatives and the company over exclusive rights to broadcast possible future funeral of the first South African black president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere is absolutely no truth to the allegation that CNN has bought the rights to the Mandela funeral,\u201d a company spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier South Africa\u2019s The Sunday Independent reported that Mandela&#8217;s family claimed CNN had \u201cpreferential\u201d access to the funeral ceremony of the former South African leader.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nelson Mandela, 94, remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American broadcaster CNN flatly denies any involvement with a rumored deal between Nelson Mandela\u2019s relatives and the company over exclusive rights to broadcast possible future funeral of the first South African black president. \u201cThere is absolutely no truth to the allegation that CNN has bought the rights to the Mandela funeral,\u201d a company spokesperson said. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6965\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CNN denies exclusive deal to broadcast Mandela\u2019s funeral&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,123],"tags":[1102,3852,327],"class_list":["post-6965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","category-world","tag-cnn","tag-exclusive-rights-to-mandela-funeral","tag-mandela"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CNN.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6968,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6965\/revisions\/6968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}