{"id":16744,"date":"2013-12-24T11:48:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T11:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.bivol.bg\/rsf-xmas-2014-english.html"},"modified":"2014-09-09T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T16:00:51","slug":"rsf-xmas-2014-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/en\/rsf-xmas-2014-english.html","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: WITHOUT INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS THIS WOULD BE THE NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Capture_2013-12-24_a_12.55.43\" height=\"335\" width=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/bivol.bg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Capture_2013-12-24_a_12.55.43.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reporters Without Borders have extended their Christmas video message, which Bivol joins.<\/p>\n<p>Without free and independent journalism, the news would be what you see on it: smiling and happy&nbsp;satraps and enemies of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Without free and independent journalism everything said in public would be written in advance in the&nbsp;form of &#8220;talking points.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Without free and independent journalism the entire public debate would be reduced to fictitious PR&nbsp;dramas like the renaming of the puppy Yorgo, Boyko Borisov\u2019s gift to Putin; the puppy is a \u201cstar\u201d in the&nbsp;video of Reporters Without Borders.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5GVInDRlYZA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Merry and bright holidays, dear readers of Bivol and remember that the most valuable in all of us is the free will bestowed by the Creator; the free will he ensured by sending us his only son Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporters Without Borders have extended their Christmas video message, which Bivol joins. 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