{"id":157,"date":"2006-12-24T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2006-12-24T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T17:07:00","slug":"xmas-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/12\/xmas-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Xmas news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">I<\/span> recall in the build-up to the first Gulf War being asked by a New York producer from <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">CBS<\/span> if we could do a piece on how Jordanians celebrated Christmas. It was a pretty short piece.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Wilson at <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Channel 4 News<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/apps26\/blogs\/page\/newsroom?entry=no_news_at_the_gray\">blogs<\/a> on how hard it is to fill programmes at this time of year. Oh yes.<\/p>\n<p>If you really want a grim laugh over the turkey and pudding, turn on a 24-hour news channel. Yes, they really are working. No, there isn&#8217;t any news.<\/p>\n<p>Expect features, an analysis of the Queen&#8217;s message, year-enders, Christmas with the troops, and a whole lot more audio-visual tumbleweed. There&#8217;s only one thing worse. Real news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recall in the build-up to the first Gulf War being asked by a New York producer from CBS if we could do a piece on how Jordanians celebrated Christmas. It was a pretty short piece. Emily Wilson at Channel 4 News blogs on how hard it is to fill programmes at this time of [&hellip;]<\/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":[81,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","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=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}