{"id":34278,"date":"2014-12-31T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=34278"},"modified":"2014-12-31T12:27:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:27:55","slug":"waterman-broadcasting-censoring-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/12\/waterman-broadcasting-censoring-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Waterman Broadcasting <br>Censoring Users?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-34279\" title=\"waterman\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/waterman-222x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/waterman-222x300.png 222w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/waterman.png 749w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/>Waterman broadcasting which owns NBC-2 and\u00a0 ABC-7 has been censoring Facebook and web site users for more than six months, according to some users.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to local users, complaints have been filed but NBC-2 and ABC-7 to Facebook but management refuses to comment on these issues.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">NBC-2 and ABC-7 has also banned users from their Facebook Pages and their websites for stating the facts in which management wouldn&#8217;t publish. Local users such as J.Smith of Fort Myers believe this is now censorship and has been wondering why Waterman is doing this.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><!--more-->Also, currently Waterman will not send out highly trained reporters, they are currently using what&#8217;s known in the news business as stringers these are unqualified volunteer labor to gather news or photos in Lehigh Acres other outlining areas in Lee County.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One Lehigh Acres resident is so upset she said that no Nbc-2 reporter showed up to a recent accident scene but someone was taking pictures and that person had no ID and was asked to leave but refused. Yet 20 mins later, photos of her with no photo release were on Waterman owned Nbc-2. and Abc-7 websites and later on Facebook. And according to her and later the sheriff&#8217;s report shows she had nothing to do with the accident, so why use her photo&#8230;.. Maybe the stringer got the story wrong.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Is this fair to the community such as Lehigh Acres if a news agency can&#8217;t even afford send out qualified journalist to cover newsworthy events. These unqualified journalists and stringers endanger themselves and the community also they repeatedly bug other local news agencies to try to find out the facts before they go live or post story&#8217;s on their own sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waterman broadcasting which owns NBC-2 and\u00a0 ABC-7 has been censoring Facebook and web site users for more than six months, according to some users. According to local users, complaints have&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}