{"id":2498,"date":"2008-12-21T00:30:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T00:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2008-12-31T00:48:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T00:48:12","slug":"2008-top-ten-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/12\/2008-top-ten-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 &#8211; top ten posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">S<\/span>omeone suggested I stick the blog in for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theorwellprize.co.uk\/the-award\/blogprize2009.aspx\">Orwell prize<\/a>. So I looked back over 2008 and chose ten posts. Here they are. Let me know what you think &#8211; right ones, wrong ones?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/2008\/09\/why-i-will-never-be-a-conservative\/\"><strong>Why I Will Never Be A Conservative<\/strong><\/a> A scene from my life.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/2008\/02\/the-decline-of-newspapers-nothing-to-do-with-journalism\/\"><strong>The Decline of Newspapers &#8211; Nothing To Do With Journalism<\/strong><\/a> Arguing with Jeff Jarvis.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/2008\/02\/arguing-against-nick-davies\/\"><strong>Arguing Against Nick Davies<\/strong><\/a> Arguing with Nick Davies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/2008\/06\/wealth-leisure-attention-economy-18c\/\"><strong>Wealth, Leisure, and the Attention Economy in the Eighteenth Century<\/strong><\/a> Arguing with Clay Shirky (there&#8217;s a theme emerging here&#8230;).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/2008\/12\/democracy-collapse-journalism-provide-political-information\/\"><strong>Will Democracy Collapse Without Journalism to Provide Political Information?<\/strong><\/a> Well? Will it?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/2008\/02\/no-country-for-old-newspapers\/\"><strong>No Country For Old Newspapers<\/strong><\/a> RIP the <em>Albuquerque Tribune<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/2008\/04\/fadel-shana-flechettes\/\"><strong>Fadal Shana and Flechettes<\/strong><\/a> Killed newsgathering.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/2008\/12\/topic-casualties-brass-plaques\/\"><strong>Casualties and Brass Plaques<\/strong><\/a> Church memorials and old wars.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/2008\/06\/blog-and-be-damned-unblog-and-be-saved\/\"><strong>Blog and be Damned<\/strong><\/a> Ruth Gledhill vs. Google cache.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/2008\/07\/my-favourite-julian-manyon-story\/\"><strong>My Favourite Julian Manyon Story<\/strong><\/a> Everyone has one. Kate Adie told me a cracker just the other day&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing like looking back to make me realize that I don&#8217;t half post a sack of old rubbish. Thanks for bearing with me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone suggested I stick the blog in for the Orwell prize. So I looked back over 2008 and chose ten posts. Here they are. Let me know what you think &#8211; right ones, wrong ones? Why I Will Never Be A Conservative A scene from my life. The Decline of Newspapers &#8211; Nothing To Do [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","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=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}