{"id":24817,"date":"2020-09-04T17:58:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T17:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=24817"},"modified":"2020-09-04T17:58:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T17:58:49","slug":"bbc-apologises-for-offensive-headline-linking-africas-low-covid-19-death-rate-to-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/04\/bbc-apologises-for-offensive-headline-linking-africas-low-covid-19-death-rate-to-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC apologises for offensive headline &#8216;linking&#8217; Africa&#8217;s low COVID-19 death rate to poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24818\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BBC-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BBC-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BBC-500x334.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BBC-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BBC.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) published a story under a controversial headline &#8220;Coronavirus in Africa: Could poverty explain mystery of low death rate?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuko.co.ke\/378029-bbc-apologises-offensive-headline-linking-africas-covid-19-death-rate-poverty.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) published a story under a controversial headline &#8220;Coronavirus in Africa: Could poverty explain mystery of low death rate?&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BBC.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24819,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24817\/revisions\/24819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}