{"id":310,"date":"2007-02-25T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2007-02-25T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T15:37:00","slug":"310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/02\/310\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. columnist <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rheta Grimsley Johnson<\/span> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonsun.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070225\/LIFESTYLE\/702250303\" target=\"_blank\">TV news<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In my lifetime, we&#8217;ve gone from all the news that&#8217;s fit to print to making any old story fit the available format. If you have an hour-long news-magazine show, stretch that unsolved murder to fill the hour. If you have a headline- news show and no real headlines, televise a car chase. Car chases are as handy as pockets to 24-hour news channels. If you have limitless footage of a bombshell Playboy bunny who dies tragically, turn up the volume. This one can&#8217;t miss.<\/p>\n<p>I am not entirely unsympathetic. I have been in the news business.<\/p>\n<p>I have sat before a blank computer screen in a one-person United Press International office on a Sunday and wished for news. Any old news.<\/p>\n<p>On slow days, however, I never pretended that the state livestock report was a triple homicide. I could see the difference. The people reading my stories could tell the difference.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that it must be a tough job to fill all that air time with stories that will captivate an insatiable audience. But with television&#8217;s amazingly lavish budgets and plenty of personnel, they could do better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. columnist Rheta Grimsley Johnson on TV news: In my lifetime, we&#8217;ve gone from all the news that&#8217;s fit to print to making any old story fit the available format. If you have an hour-long news-magazine show, stretch that unsolved murder to fill the hour. If you have a headline- news show and no real [&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":[120],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-us-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}