{"id":299,"date":"2007-02-22T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2007-02-22T06:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T12:50:00","slug":"tony-blair-cover-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/02\/tony-blair-cover-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair, cover story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/eat-the-press\/Picture%201-thumb.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 55px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/eat-the-press\/Picture%201-thumb.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span class=\"pullquote\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Newsweek<\/span> spokeswoman: &#8220;Tony Blair is an international figure and he&#8217;s an international story. Hence we put him on the cover of all of our overseas issues.&#8221;<\/span><span class=\"dropcaps\">H<\/span>ow important is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tony Blair<\/span> in the United States? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/eat-the-press\/2007\/02\/21\/newsweek-news-o_e_41606.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Huffington Post<\/span><\/span><\/a> picks up on<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Newsweek<\/span><\/span>&#8216;s decision to run Blair as a cover on every edition except the one published in the U.S. certainly tells a story.<\/p>\n<p>But in fairness to Mr Blair, it isn&#8217;t quite the whole one. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Newsweek<\/span> in the U.S. is a lower brow, more human interest offering than its international incarnation. So putting &#8220;Men and Depression&#8221; on the front page across America is not quite the slap in the face the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">HuffPo<\/span> portrays, and yet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek spokeswoman: &#8220;Tony Blair is an international figure and he&#8217;s an international story. Hence we put him on the cover of all of our overseas issues.&#8221;How important is Tony Blair in the United States? The Huffington Post picks up on Newsweek&#8216;s decision to run Blair as a cover on every edition except the one published [&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-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}