{"id":98,"date":"2006-12-01T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2006-12-01T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T21:31:00","slug":"new-news-channels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/12\/new-news-channels-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New news channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/news.tv2.dk\/img\/320x286-news.jpg\"><\/a>This week&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Economist<\/span><\/span> has a surprisingly weak piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/international\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_RPVGPPS\">A new fashion for state-owned English-language television news<\/a>. It ends a hackneyed review with this  conclusion: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">For audiences, having more news channels should be a boon. But they are expensive, and in many places the burden will fall on taxpayers. Some lucky people (in America, especially) may get the chance to channel-hop their way through news services from all over the world without having to subsidise them. But they will hardly bother to strain their index fingers unless governments learn a bit of subtlety.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Worth waiting for, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Denmark is bucking the trend with a new Danish 24-hour news channel, care of its public service broadcaster &#8211; TV2. [<a href='http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2006\/12\/01\/business\/EU_FIN_COM_Denmark_TV2.php'>IHT<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>You can watch it <a href=\"http:\/\/news.tv2.dk\/index.php\/video-1.html\">here<\/a>, and it&#8217;s blogged about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stagisblog.com\/stagis\/2006\/12\/good_news_or_ba.html\">here<\/a>. Hope it&#8217;s not a slow day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Economist has a surprisingly weak piece, A new fashion for state-owned English-language television news. It ends a hackneyed review with this conclusion: For audiences, having more news channels should be a boon. But they are expensive, and in many places the burden will fall on taxpayers. Some lucky people (in America, especially) may [&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":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}