{"id":2369,"date":"2016-01-31T09:18:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T15:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2016-01-31T09:18:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T15:18:40","slug":"pakistani-version-of-new-york-times-censors-same-sex-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2369","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani version of New York Times censors same-sex kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani printer of the international edition of?<em>The New York Times?<\/em>censored a large front-page picture from one of this week&#8217;s editions because it showed a man kissing another man on the cheek. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/28\/world\/asia\/couples-lawsuit-is-first-test-for-same-sex-marriage-in-china.html?_r=1\">The image and the accompanying article can be seen here.<\/a>?Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2016\/01\/29\/a-gay-kiss-on-the-cheek-deemed-too-much-for-pakistanis-to-stomach\/\">Washington Post:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/media\/press\/pakistani-printers-removed-article-in-new-york-times-international-on-brutal-killings-of-secular-a6793731.html\">second time<\/a> this month, Pakistan?s Express Tribune, which partners with and publishes the international edition of the New York Times locally, censored a front-page article or photograph. Instead of running the photograph, New York Times subscribers in Pakistan woke up to find a huge blank space on their paper.<\/p>\n<p>?This picture was removed by our publishing alliance in Pakistan,? a caption stated below the 8-inch by 12-inch blank space. ?The International New York Times and its editorial staff had no role in its removal.?<\/p>\n<p>The photograph was supposed to accompany <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/28\/world\/asia\/couples-lawsuit-is-first-test-for-same-sex-marriage-in-china.html\">a Times story<\/a>, written by Edward Wong and Vanessa Piao, about a?first-of-its kind lawsuit in China challenging that country?s prohibition on same-sex marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The Pakistani printer of the international edition of?The New York Times?censored a large front-page picture from one of this week&#8217;s editions because it showed a man kissing another man on the cheek. The image and the accompanying article can be seen here.?Via Washington Post: For the second time this month, Pakistan?s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[105,326,609],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-censorship","tag-new-york-times","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}