{"id":2308,"date":"2008-12-14T00:15:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T00:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2008-12-15T16:35:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T16:35:52","slug":"media-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/12\/media-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The media crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The Economist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington,&#8221; was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noel_Coward\"><strong>Noel Coward<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s advise. Nowadays young Miss Worthington would be wise to avoid newsrooms, publishing offices, film sets and television studios as well.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Anglo-American world has seldom heard so many complaints about the quality of books, television programmes and films. As a business, too, the media industry is in wretched shape, its leading companies crippled by debt, rapacity or fraud; sometimes &#8212; as with those run the late <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Maxwell\"><strong>Robert Maxwell<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; a combination of all three.<\/p>\n<p>Each day it seems another newspaper or magazine is closed, a television schedule trimmed, the bankruptcy lawyers summoned&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>February, 1992<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist &#8220;Don&#8217;t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington,&#8221; was Noel Coward&#8216;s advise. Nowadays young Miss Worthington would be wise to avoid newsrooms, publishing offices, film sets and television studios as well.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","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=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}