{"id":865,"date":"2008-04-02T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=865"},"modified":"2008-12-20T19:05:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T19:05:45","slug":"decline-of-the-sitcom-mirrors-decline-of-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/04\/decline-of-the-sitcom-mirrors-decline-of-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Decline of the sitcom mirrors decline of newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">M<\/span>y contention that the decline of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">newspapers<\/span> is nothing fundamentally to do with the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">journalism<\/span> gets some anecdotal support (by analogy) from British comedian <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/apr\/02\/bbc.television3?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=media\">Ben Elton<\/a>, lamenting the decline of the sitcom: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Elton also talked about the decline of traditional sitcoms that could be enjoyed by mass audiences. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s the fault of artists, or even commissioners; I think it\u2019s the fault of technology &#8230; You can\u2019t smash the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spinning_jenny\">Spinning Jenny<\/a>, but we need to at least recognise its consequences,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I say that the chances of another <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dad%27s_Army\">Dad\u2019s Army<\/a> developing are diminishing, it\u2019s because even if there is one happening at the moment, not enough people are going to notice for it to enter our consciousness and for us all to come to love it.\u201d [HT: <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.currybet.net\/\">Martin Belam<\/a><\/span>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unless, of course, comedians just aren\u2019t funny any more. Or the money simply isn\u2019t there to attract the really funny ones&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My contention that the decline of newspapers is nothing fundamentally to do with the journalism gets some anecdotal support (by analogy) from British comedian Ben Elton, lamenting the decline of the sitcom: Elton also talked about the decline of traditional sitcoms that could be enjoyed by mass audiences. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s the fault 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":[2104,2107,2102,2103,2101,1741,2106,2105,1564],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-ben-elton","tag-comedy","tag-dads-army","tag-for-us-all","tag-martin-belam","tag-newspapers","tag-sitcom","tag-spinning-jenny","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}