{"id":464,"date":"2003-10-20T11:55:56","date_gmt":"2003-10-20T11:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/10\/channel_4_getti\/"},"modified":"2003-10-20T11:55:56","modified_gmt":"2003-10-20T11:55:56","slug":"channel_4_getti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/channel_4_getti\/","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4 Getting Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although it&#8217;s not the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Columnists\/Column\/0,5673,1066768,00.html\">best argued piece<\/a> I&#8217;ve ever read, it&#8217;s certainly true that Channel 4 is dropping its standards quite badly just now.<br \/>\nYes they broadcast suff like <i>The Deal<\/i>, and Tony Robinson&#8217;s historical pieces, but their mass market stuff is getting worse and worse, with a real common denominator at the bottom their programming fraction. (OK that was a terrible pun).<br \/>\nWith their upcoming Pornography: The Musical, and last week&#8217;s totally worthless and tasteless Teen Big Brother, I really don&#8217;t see how they can maintain their public service remit.<br \/>\nI was even disappointed by last week&#8217;s Cutting Edge which addressed the atrocities resultant from attempting to run the Miss World competition in Nigeria last year. It just wasn&#8217;t seriously or properly addressed. They seemed to love having lots of models around taking video of one another, and didn&#8217;t take a proper look at the issues. It was simplistic.<br \/>\nSo while there is Channel 4 News, we get more of The Salon (soon to be replacing the lamentable RISE?), Fashion House and yards and yards of Graham Norton messing up their 10.00pm slots.<br \/>\nLets see some proper drama, that wouldn&#8217;t look better on Sky One (Teachers), some comedy that comes round a little more frequently than every couple of years, and a few less sex documentaries.<br \/>\nFrankly BBC Four and even Five are better at the moment, with much smaller budgets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it&#8217;s not the best argued piece I&#8217;ve ever read, it&#8217;s certainly true that Channel 4 is dropping its standards quite badly just now. Yes they broadcast suff like The Deal, and Tony Robinson&#8217;s historical pieces, but their mass market stuff is getting worse and worse, with a real common denominator at the bottom their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464"}],"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=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}