{"id":570,"date":"2007-08-09T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2007-08-09T04:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T10:11:00","slug":"fox-news-teaseless-crapless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/08\/fox-news-teaseless-crapless\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News: teaseless, crapless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">W<\/span>hen people at <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Fox News<\/span> start trotting out stuff you were doing five years ago, you know you\u2019re getting old. Still, it is <a href=\"http:\/\/community.tvguide.com\/blog-entry\/TVGuide-Editors-Blog\/Biz\/Shepard-Smith-Promises\/800020124\" target=\"_blank\">pretty sensible<\/a> advice:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Shepard Smith<\/span>: We have to do more news. We\u2019ve already given up the \u201ccoming up\u201d teasing that we were known for in the early days. We\u2019ve taken all of that time and put it into content. We did that because viewers said that\u2019s what they wanted. Viewers have said, \u201cStop telling me for 45 seconds what you\u2019re going to do in the next four minutes.\u201d So we have.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re not going to do more crap. We\u2019re not going to do more titillating [stories], Hollywood-movie reviews and jokes. We\u2019re going to do less of that. There are other places that do that better than we do. I don\u2019t make any apologies for the way we\u2019ve done it in the past. There was an atmosphere where it was acceptable because people didn\u2019t have so much of it. We need to do news.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people at Fox News start trotting out stuff you were doing five years ago, you know you\u2019re getting old. Still, it is pretty sensible advice: Shepard Smith: We have to do more news. We\u2019ve already given up the \u201ccoming up\u201d teasing that we were known for in the early days. We\u2019ve taken all of [&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":[65],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-fox-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}