{"id":48,"date":"2006-11-09T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2006-11-09T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T18:32:00","slug":"washington-views-and-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/11\/washington-views-and-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington views and news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.answers.com\/main\/content\/wp\/en\/thumb\/a\/af\/250px-Channel_4_news.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/content.answers.com\/main\/content\/wp\/en\/thumb\/a\/af\/250px-Channel_4_news.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Over lunch today someone just back from the U.S. was telling of a very recently cancelled eating engagement with none other than <b>Karl Rove<\/b>. The secretary who called to reschedule explained politely that the mid-term elections were taking up more time than Mr Rove had anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, U.S. politics features heavily on the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/apps26\/blogs\/page\/newsroom\">Channel 4 News blog<\/a>. For me, one of its strengths is that it provides a proper writing platform for <a href='http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/apps26\/blogs\/page\/newsroom?entry=goodbye_donald_rumsfeld'>Felicity Spector<\/a>. Unless you\u2019re a keen credit-watcher you probably won\u2019t recognize the name. I&#8217;ve known Felicity since we were at college together in the 80s. She&#8217;s one of the brainy behind-the-scenes people who help write and produce Britain\u2019s most distinctive TV news programme (a pinker and perkier version of <i>NewsHour<\/i>). Television writing is a wonderful thing, but a thirty second lead-in is still only ninety words tops, and if anyone deserves a bigger canvas it&#8217;s Felicity.<\/p>\n<p>She did a spell at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksg.harvard.edu\/\">KSG<\/a> on a Fulbright and is a keen observer of the US political scene. Keep an eye out for her contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over lunch today someone just back from the U.S. was telling of a very recently cancelled eating engagement with none other than Karl Rove. The secretary who called to reschedule explained politely that the mid-term elections were taking up more time than Mr Rove had anticipated. Unsurprisingly, U.S. politics features heavily on the new Channel [&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":[7,50,81,5],"tags":[117,78],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","category-media","category-news","tag-channel-4-news","tag-uk-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}