{"id":1348,"date":"2008-09-13T00:15:40","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T23:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2008-09-14T20:54:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T19:54:31","slug":"an-old-man-remembers-fleet-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/09\/an-old-man-remembers-fleet-street\/","title":{"rendered":"An old man remembers Fleet Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> finished college at twenty-two. I was going to do six months training on Fleet Street, which was the mecca of competitive journalism. I sat in on the <em>Daily Express<\/em>, and I enjoyed it so much, I thought, I gotta have a job here, just to learn.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And I did that for four or five months. It was one of the happiest experiences of my life. I was living in a friend&#8217;s sitting room in London &#8211; which in those days was filthy from the pollution &#8211; and watching the editor and learning to be a journalist.<\/p>\n<p>There was paper rationing in Britain in those days, and they couldn&#8217;t produce more than an eight-page broadsheet. And they treated every day like it was life-or-death competition. <\/p>\n<p>They would put up a one-page critique of the paper every day. &#8220;We had 156 stories today, and the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> had 164. Never let that happen again.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Everything was boiled down to two paragraphs or so. Brevity was important. Facts had to be right. And it was exciting. <\/p>\n<p>As a journalist, you felt as if you were right at the centre of events. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/75-most-influential\/rupert-murdoch-1008\">Esquire<\/a><\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished college at twenty-two. I was going to do six months training on Fleet Street, which was the mecca of competitive journalism. I sat in on the Daily Express, and I enjoyed it so much, I thought, I gotta have a job here, just to learn.<\/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":[7],"tags":[1517,1820,1819,1502,177],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-britain","tag-daily-mail","tag-fleet-street","tag-london","tag-rupert-murdoch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","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=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}