{"id":498,"date":"2006-03-03T11:57:55","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T11:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=498"},"modified":"2006-03-03T11:57:55","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T11:57:55","slug":"authors-attack-reed-elsevier-over-arms-fairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2006\/03\/03\/authors-attack-reed-elsevier-over-arms-fairs\/","title":{"rendered":"authors attack Reed Elsevier over arms fairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News story: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/4764106.stm\">Authors make book fair protest<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAuthors including Will Self and Ian McEwan have protested against the organisers of the London Book Fair being involved in the arms trade.<br \/>\nIn a letter published in The Times Literary Supplement, the writers called for Reed Exhibitions to stop holding arms fairs around the world.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWe are appalled that our trade should be commercially connected to one which exacerbates insecurity and repression, and which props up regimes inimical to free expression,&#8221; stated the letter.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News story: Authors make book fair protest Authors including Will Self and Ian McEwan have protested against the organisers of the London Book Fair being involved in the arms trade. In a letter published in The Times Literary Supplement, the writers called for Reed Exhibitions to stop holding arms fairs around the world. &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsevier"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-82","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}