{"id":105,"date":"2006-12-05T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2006-12-05T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T12:45:00","slug":"bashir-un-bashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/12\/bashir-un-bashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bashir un-bashed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>N<\/span>ews emerges, via veteran U.S. TV writer Tom Shales<\/span>, of Martin Bashir<\/span>. In case you’d forgotten, he’s on the post-Ted Koppel<\/span> Nightline<\/span>, which airs on ABC (imagine the post-Jon Snow<\/span> Channel 4 News<\/span>). Shales notes that: <\/p>\n

Nightline<\/span> has survived its initial case of post-Koppel stress disorder and emerged a solid, ambitious news broadcast, one that does multiple topics on most nights and usually does them well. The pieces are smartly-produced and the studio segments deftly handled by anchors Cynthia McFadden and Terry Moran – and yes, even by Martin Bashir<\/span>, the British journalist who was awfully hard to take at first. He was worse than just a fish out of water; he was one of those freaky fish that tries to hop from the lake right into your lap. He rocked the boat, but not in a good way.<\/p>\n

Now Bashir seems less stiff and retro on the air, less like the ghost of Westbrook van Voorhis or some other ancient mariner. [TV Week<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(BTW Van Voorhis was an old-time radio and TV announcer) And speaking of old-time, Talk hosts Jay Leno<\/span> and David Letterman<\/span> are losing ground even as Nightline<\/span> is registering modest progress: <\/p>\n

4 percent from the same week last year to 3.75 million total viewers, 4 percent better than 3.6 million in 2005. Season-to-date, Nightline<\/span> is up 200,000 viewers over last year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the only late-night program with year-to-date growth in 18-49s. Leno at 1.9 and Letterman at 1.5 are flat, while Nightline<\/span> is up 9 percent, from a 1.1 to a 1.2. [Media Life<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Still, some clear blue water between news and chat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News emerges, via veteran U.S. TV writer Tom Shales, of Martin Bashir. In case you’d forgotten, he’s on the post-Ted Koppel Nightline, which airs on ABC (imagine the post-Jon Snow Channel 4 News). Shales notes that: Nightline has survived its initial case of post-Koppel stress disorder and emerged a solid, ambitious news broadcast, one that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,81,5],"tags":[119,120],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalists","category-media","category-news","tag-uk-journalism","tag-us-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}