{"id":564,"date":"2007-08-06T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2007-08-06T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T16:48:00","slug":"talking-politics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/08\/talking-politics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking politics 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">A<\/span> brief review of my efforts on <a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/news\/talkingpolitics.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Politics<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haloscan.com\/comments\/patrickcrozier\/4433494965217319588\/#366369\" target=\"_blank\">David Preiser<\/a> at <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biased BBC<\/a>. And it\u2019s a case of \u201cyou can\u2019t please all of the people&#8230;\u201d<span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I found the defenders of the BBC to be &#8211; as expected &#8211; quite defensive. Prof. Monck clearly lives in the same ivory tower as Director Helen Boaden, although he was not presented as the staunch defender of the BBC that he is.<\/p>\n<p>Monck says straight out that if the BBC was altered to better reflect the opinions of the British public, it would be a BBC that he would like less than he does now. Why was he even allowed on? His and Helen Boaden\u2019s comments alternated between an almost arrogant dismissiveness and willful obtuseness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only two <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">l<\/span>s in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">wilful<\/span>, Dave! If only you\u2019d written <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">pedantic<\/span> dismissiveness!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Postscript<\/span><\/span>: Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/david_cox\/2007\/08\/on_the_bias.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_blank\">David Cox<\/span><\/a> with his take on the debate.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief review of my efforts on Talking Politics from David Preiser at Biased BBC. And it\u2019s a case of \u201cyou can\u2019t please all of the people&#8230;\u201d I found the defenders of the BBC to be &#8211; as expected &#8211; quite defensive. Prof. Monck clearly lives in the same ivory tower as Director Helen Boaden, [&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":[],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}