{"id":979,"date":"2008-05-29T21:10:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T20:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2008-05-30T08:41:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T07:41:29","slug":"what-the-papers-say-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/05\/what-the-papers-say-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Papers Say &#8211; RIP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> met the team the team behind <em>What The Papers Say<\/em> up in Manchester before Christmas, helping to sift through the list for their annual awards.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>WTPS was a charming, old school production helmed by the very decent Ged Clarke, and nestled alongside the <em>Tonight with Trevor<\/em>. It brought to mind the days in broadcasting when &#8216;factual&#8217; was still called &#8216;talks,&#8217; and current affairs was about kids who were under rather than overfed. Yes, the grim reaper practically walked the studio floor, and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/may\/29\/bbc.television\" target=\"_blank\">the scythe has swung<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Still, could <strong>Sky News<\/strong> pick up the awards, make a bit of cash out of them &#8211; and maybe even find a slot for WTPS somewhere&#8230;for the right price? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met the team the team behind What The Papers Say up in Manchester before Christmas, helping to sift through the list for their annual awards.<\/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":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","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=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}