{"id":868,"date":"2008-04-04T03:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=868"},"modified":"2008-04-04T03:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T09:18:00","slug":"news-editors-read-the-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/04\/news-editors-read-the-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"News editors &#8211; read the comments&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">I<\/span> try not to do this (being far from perfect), but have a read of the following story which asks, by way of reporting, <a target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/uk\/Baby-joy-for-Kaplinsky-.3942294.jp\">Baby joy for Kaplinsky \u2013 but are Five chiefs happy?<\/a> <span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Natasha Kaplinsky, who six weeks ago became the face of Five News on an annual salary of \u00a31 million, making her the richest news presenter in Britain, is three months pregnant, the station confirmed yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>While Ms Kaplinsky, 35, was said by friends to be \u201cecstatic\u201d about her latest good news, it is not known how senior management feel at the prospect of losing their high-profile signing to maternity leave.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the station insisted it shared in its new employee\u2019s good fortune. Chris Shaw, senior controller, said, through teeth that may or may not have been gritted: \u201cNatasha has had a tremendous impact and we\u2019re delighted to hear the fantastic news about her pregnancy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As one commenter writes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, let me get this story right. Natasha is pregnant, she is ecstatic and her employers have said they are very happy for her. The writer then goes on to say \u201cwe don\u2019t know\u201d if this was said through gritted teeth&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Readers. They\u2019re not as dumb as you think.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try not to do this (being far from perfect), but have a read of the following story which asks, by way of reporting, Baby joy for Kaplinsky \u2013 but are Five chiefs happy? Natasha Kaplinsky, who six weeks ago became the face of Five News on an annual salary of \u00a31 million, making her [&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":[212],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-five-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","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=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}