Writing to Netflix Co-CEO and Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, NFI President John Connolly provided convenient dictionary definitions that Netflix could find useful in future labelling of its content.<\/p>\n
Documentary: a presentation (such as a film or novel) expressing or dealing with factual events: a documentary presentation <\/em><\/p>\n Propaganda: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cFilms like this would be a super start to your new \u201cpropaganda\u201d content tab, as it is the spreading of a vegan message masquerading as facts about seafood. We understand your business model is to get people to watch as much stuff as possible \u2013 without too much care about facts. So, maybe it is appropriate for Netflix to offer viewers a story based on exaggeration, fabrications and conspiracy theories,\u201d John Connolly said.<\/p>\n \u201cKeep in mind, this is the same entertainment network that brought us the whack-jobs of Tiger King<\/em>. So let\u2019s all take a breath,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Fisheries Institute has slammed the forthcoming Netflix offering Seaspiracy as outright propaganda by vegan activists, suggesting that the channel offer viewers a \u201cpropaganda\u201d tab that reflects the content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5436,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions\/5436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5434"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}