{"id":1684,"date":"2006-10-03T11:16:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T11:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/10\/times_online_tv\/"},"modified":"2006-10-03T11:16:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T11:16:03","slug":"times_online_tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/times_online_tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Online TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a bit of media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.co.uk\/article\/ds37696.html\">coverage<\/a> of a deal that The Times has done with its sister company Sky News, leading to Sky&#8217;s news being available on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/section\/0,,29809,00.html\">Times Online TV<\/a>&#8221; a streaming video service available on The Times&#8217; website.<br \/>\nAside from the fact that this is surely not really news &#8211; two sister companies working together &#8211; I was more surprised when I had a bit of a look at the Times Online TV service to see what else it had. A lot of the video is supplied by Reuters, and perfectly good it is too. But aside from a Sky News tab, there&#8217;s also a Fox News tab. Surely that really doesn&#8217;t help The Times does it? Rabidly right wing, with it&#8217;s famous &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221; nonsense strapline. Just about the first story on the site in the US News section gives a fair indication. It&#8217;s a follow-up piece from a few days ago following an interview on Fox News with Bill Clinton, in which Clinton vehemently defended himself against accusations that his administration hadn&#8217;t done enough to look for Osama Bin Ladin. The piece even featured the reported words of Fox News Chief Roger Ailes in a self-reverential manner.<br \/>\nMaybe the service will next start using The Sun for its entertainment service?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a bit of media coverage of a deal that The Times has done with its sister company Sky News, leading to Sky&#8217;s news being available on &#8220;Times Online TV&#8221; a streaming video service available on The Times&#8217; website. Aside from the fact that this is surely not really news &#8211; two sister companies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}