{"id":21,"date":"2006-10-30T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2006-10-30T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T21:49:00","slug":"commuters-and-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/10\/commuters-and-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuters and newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmauk.co.uk\/nma\/downloads\/Evening_Standard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmauk.co.uk\/nma\/downloads\/Evening_Standard.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Do more people read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esadvertising.co.uk\/\">Evening Standard<\/a> in Tunbridge Wells than in Battersea? That&#8217;s what former Guardian journalist and Battersea MP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressgazette.co.uk\/article\/301006\/martin_linton_london_papers_evening_standard\">Martin Linton<\/a> reckons.<\/p>\n<p>What Linton meant by his throwaway comment  is that it&#8217;s read by commuters. And commuters, especially rail commuters, are political trash. They generate their economic value in a place that gives them no political voice. They spend most of their money there. But they sleep a train ride away. It&#8217;s a measure of how disconnected politics are from people&#8217;s lives that these simple facts defy our electoral system and our media. Instead politicians romanticise communities and localities. MPs are more embedded in geography than the Lords they supplanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do more people read the Evening Standard in Tunbridge Wells than in Battersea? That&#8217;s what former Guardian journalist and Battersea MP Martin Linton reckons. What Linton meant by his throwaway comment is that it&#8217;s read by commuters. And commuters, especially rail commuters, are political trash. They generate their economic value in a place that gives [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}