{"id":162,"date":"2006-12-27T06:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2006-12-27T06:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T12:04:00","slug":"crude-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/12\/crude-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Crude Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alaroye.com\/index_r3_c6.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alaroye.com\/index_r3_c6.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span class=\"dropcaps\">I<\/span>&#8216;m not used to getting dedications in books, but I am especially proud of getting a mention (albeit barely deserved) in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Alao Adedayo<\/span>&#8216;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Crude Journalism: The History of Alaroye and African Indigenous Language Newspapers<\/span>. Don&#8217;t be put off by the sub-title this is a rollicking good read &#8211; like <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rousseau<\/span>&#8216;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Confessions<\/span>. It tells the story of how a womanizing Nigerian newscaster battles booze (and womanizing) to become a community hero, starting a successful newspaper group in his native Yoruba language.<\/p>\n<p>You can read reviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswatchngr.com\/editorial\/allaccess\/bob\/11211083624.htm\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200612150363.html?page=2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately getting hold of a copy isn&#8217;t all that easy&#8230;and I&#8217;m not lending mine out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8216;m not used to getting dedications in books, but I am especially proud of getting a mention (albeit barely deserved) in Alao Adedayo&#8216;s Crude Journalism: The History of Alaroye and African Indigenous Language Newspapers. Don&#8217;t be put off by the sub-title this is a rollicking good read &#8211; like Rousseau&#8216;s Confessions. It tells the story [&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":[7,50,81,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","category-media","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","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=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}