{"id":600,"date":"2007-09-16T02:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2007-09-16T02:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T08:12:00","slug":"jeremy-paxman-regional-news-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/09\/jeremy-paxman-regional-news-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Paxman: regional news fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">[J]ust look at almost any regional news programme, with its tawdry catalogue of misfortune, recited in deadbeat vocabulary. You\u2019d think that every child in the city was being sexually abused, every journey every day disrupted, resulting in \u2018pure misery\u2019, every teenager a drug-crazed psychopath. Does it alarm? Sure. Does it help us understand? You must be joking.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[From his <a href=\"http:\/\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-files\/Media\/documents\/2007\/08\/24\/MacTaggartLecture.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">MacTaggart<\/span> lecture<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[J]ust look at almost any regional news programme, with its tawdry catalogue of misfortune, recited in deadbeat vocabulary. You\u2019d think that every child in the city was being sexually abused, every journey every day disrupted, resulting in \u2018pure misery\u2019, every teenager a drug-crazed psychopath. Does it alarm? Sure. Does it help us understand? You must [&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],"tags":[15,119],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","tag-bbc","tag-uk-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","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=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}