{"id":416,"date":"2007-05-03T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2007-05-03T08:21:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T14:21:00","slug":"first-rule-of-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/05\/first-rule-of-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"First rule of terrorism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">D<\/span>on&#8217;t go on the telly. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ITV News<\/span> reporter <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jon Gilbert <\/span>gives the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/crime\/article1737411.ece\" target=\"_blank\">back story<\/a> to his interview with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">FBI <\/span>informant <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mohammed Junaid Babar<\/span>. In 2001, it ran on my old show &#8211; <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">five news<\/span> (we couldn&#8217;t afford capital letters) &#8211; and was then picked up by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">CNN<\/span> on syndication from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ITN<\/span>. That&#8217;s when someone from the <span>FBI <\/span>saw it, and three years later Babar himself was picked up by said organization.<\/p>\n<p>Now Babar wouldn&#8217;t have been given the time of day on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Fox News<\/span>&#8230;so maybe there is something to be said for the patriotic security role of the liberal media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t go on the telly. ITV News reporter Jon Gilbert gives the back story to his interview with FBI informant Mohammed Junaid Babar. In 2001, it ran on my old show &#8211; five news (we couldn&#8217;t afford capital letters) &#8211; and was then picked up by CNN on syndication from ITN. That&#8217;s when someone from [&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":[39,212,16,416],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-cnn","tag-five-news","tag-itv-news","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}