{"id":166,"date":"2004-10-24T09:53:12","date_gmt":"2004-10-24T09:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/10\/24\/a-lesson-for-our-blogging-times\/"},"modified":"2004-10-24T09:53:12","modified_gmt":"2004-10-24T09:53:12","slug":"a-lesson-for-our-blogging-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/10\/a-lesson-for-our-blogging-times\/","title":{"rendered":"A lesson for our blogging times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie Brooker<\/a>, TV scheduler of choice<\/a>, writes a rather near-to-the-bone TV review in The Guardian’s A5, throwaway listings mag, The Guide. It’s astonishingly insulting and very funny. Only this week’s column’s musings on George Bush<\/a> – “John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr – where are you now that we need you” – gets him picked up on the bleeding Drudge Report<\/a> as The Guardian advocating assassinating the President. Rightwingers start discussing<\/a> exactly what they should do about Mr Brooker. I’m guessing his email inbox is going to keep him in fresh new insults for months.<\/p>\n

Of course, The Guardian is well aware that it has a substantial American readership via the internet. It brags about it often enough. Its Operation<\/a> Clark<\/a> County<\/a> articles were much noted and the coverage<\/a> in the paper entirely predictable (it’s fairly obvious that they always wanted the idiot email responses<\/a>: it helps fill up the paper printing them). The Manchester Guardian<\/a> left its provincial moorings behind in the wake of the Suez Crisis<\/a> to become metropolitan. Now another criminally stupid foreign adventure – one actually far worse than Suez – is turning the paper cosmopolitan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlie Brooker, TV scheduler of choice, writes a rather near-to-the-bone TV review in The Guardian’s A5, throwaway listings mag, The Guide. It’s astonishingly insulting and very funny. Only this week’s column’s musings on George Bush – “John Wilkes Booth, Lee … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}