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According to her, it\u2018s important not to hide this fact from the public while\u00a0the news agency should very clearly and publicly say how it intends to avoid the influence of politicians and and how they will ensure a clear line between the administration and the editorial office. According to Rugile it is\u00a0extremely important to know\u00a0who controls news agencies, because the content produced by news agencies is being purchased by other media outlets who publicise it across the whole region.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/mediateka\/irasai#\/program\/589824\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201eThe fact that a person affiliated with a political party will own a media outlet is not something new in Lithuania,\u201c Rugil\u0117&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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