{"id":27,"date":"2006-11-02T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2006-11-02T02:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T08:23:00","slug":"madonna-vs-newsnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/11\/madonna-vs-newsnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna vs. Newsnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/42262000\/jpg\/_42262626_madonna_bbc_203.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/42262000\/jpg\/_42262626_madonna_bbc_203.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Be careful what you wish for&#8230;<a href='http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/6108914.stm'>Newsnight<\/a> (a UK version of <a href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nightline'>Nightline<\/a>) secured an interview with Madonna which aired last night.<\/p>\n<p><b>You can see the tag-line: when a hard-nosed interviewer meets a woman used to being crucified on video \u2013 the sparks fly!<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Madonna and anchor Kirsty Wark discussed the singer\u2019s adoption of a young Malawian boy, filmed against the backdrop of a candlelit boudoir inspired perhaps by a Kate Bush video from circa 1980. <\/p>\n<p>Instead of Scottish enlightenment, their encounter was more no-score draw: Caledonian thistle, nil; Queen of the Pop, nil.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not like <i>Newsnight<\/i> has to suck up to St Madge for regular access. There are no embeds with Madonna. The bravest, most newsworthy thing <i>Newsnight<\/i> could have done, would have been to drop it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be careful what you wish for&#8230;Newsnight (a UK version of Nightline) secured an interview with Madonna which aired last night. You can see the tag-line: when a hard-nosed interviewer meets a woman used to being crucified on video \u2013 the sparks fly! Madonna and anchor Kirsty Wark discussed the singer\u2019s adoption of a young Malawian [&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-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}