{"id":909,"date":"2008-04-30T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=909"},"modified":"2008-05-24T22:29:19","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T21:29:19","slug":"can-you-trust-the-media-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/04\/can-you-trust-the-media-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Trust The Media? &#8211; launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">S<\/span>o tonight is the launch event for my book, timed brilliantly on the eve of a contest that will decide the future happiness of a great swathe of Londoners. Not the mayoral elections of course, but the <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Chelsea vs Liverpool<\/span> Champions League semi-final.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charliebeckett.org\/?p=605\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Beckett<\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/virtualeconomics.typepad.com\/virtualeconomics\/2008\/04\/can-you-trust-t.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seamus McCauley<\/a><\/span> have both kindly reviewed or reviewed kindly <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic\">Can Your Trust The Media?<\/span> Charlie will be on the panel with <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yasmin Alibhai-Brown<\/span>, me and <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Andrew Gilligan<\/span>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never met Andrew, but I was one of the voters in the ballot that judged him 2008 Journalist of the Year. A winner in the eyes of his peers and probably the public, he will doubtless be unphased by <a href=\"http:\/\/adrianmonck.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/andrew-gilligan-hero-of-journalism.html\">my dissenting view<\/a> of his <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Hutton<\/span> reporting.<\/p>\n<p>And, in the chair, Evan Davis &#8211; whose fault it is not to be able to turn down requests like the one to step in and host tonight.<\/p>\n<p>If you can be there, bless you &#8211; if not, seek it out at a local bookstore and the kids will eat again next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So tonight is the launch event for my book, timed brilliantly on the eve of a contest that will decide the future happiness of a great swathe of Londoners. Not the mayoral elections of course, but the Chelsea vs Liverpool Champions League semi-final.<\/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":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyttm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}