{"id":5854,"date":"2013-08-26T09:29:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T09:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2024-09-12T15:47:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T15:47:57","slug":"abuse-of-media-power-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/abuse-of-media-power-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuse of media power (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have complained <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2011\/12\/christopher-hitchens-rip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">before<\/a> that <em>The Grauniad<\/em> sometimes looks as if it&#8217;s no more than\u00a0the internal corporate newsletter of the people who work for it.\u00a0\u00a0 Their sister title, <em>The Observer<\/em>,\u00a0has a particularly egregious example of\u00a0such\u00a0behaviour this weekend.\u00a0 Of the 18 pages devoted to arts preview coverage, 6 entire pages are devoted to one person, 7 pages if\u00a0you count the cover.\u00a0 Who is this paragon?\u00a0 Did some famous artist just die?\u00a0\u00a0What artist or\u00a0actor or dancer or musician or film-maker or writer deserves such coverage?\u00a0 Why, it was \u00a0none of these!\u00a0 The coverage is for the newspaper&#8217;s film-critic, Philip French, who hasn&#8217;t even died, but is merely retiring.\u00a0\u00a0 And guess what?\u00a0 As well as these 7 out of 18\u00a0entire pages, another half-page is given over in the reviews section to French&#8217;s latest film review!\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s good see the Guardian\/Observer&#8217;s Marketing Department so successfully targeting that crucial demographic, current and former Guardian\/Observer employees who know Philip French.\u00a0\u00a0 Pity that doing so alienates the rest of us.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have complained before that The Grauniad sometimes looks as if it&#8217;s no more than\u00a0the internal corporate newsletter of the people who work for it.\u00a0\u00a0 Their sister title, The Observer,\u00a0has a particularly egregious example of\u00a0such\u00a0behaviour this weekend.\u00a0 Of the 18 pages devoted to arts preview coverage, 6 entire pages are devoted to one person, 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","p1","y2013","m08","d26","h09"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13124,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions\/13124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}