{"id":992,"date":"2005-01-20T14:42:20","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T14:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/01\/jerry_springer_2\/"},"modified":"2005-01-20T14:42:20","modified_gmt":"2005-01-20T14:42:20","slug":"jerry_springer_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/jerry_springer_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Springer &#8211; The Legal Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is all getting <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,7493,1394833,00.html\">completely out of hand<\/a> now. An organisation named The Christian Insitute is c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christian.org.uk\/pressreleases\/2005\/january_19_2005.htm\">laiming<\/a> that it&#8217;ll be taking the BBC to the High Court as it has &#8220;violated&#8221; its Royal Charter.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m actually scared by the sway that some of these organistations are having on our liberty and freedom of expression. I don&#8217;t think that they have any power, but if you keep bashing away at something, cracks tend to emerge after a while. If I were at the BBC, I&#8217;d be commissioning a fairly swift repeat of the broadcast on BBC4 (for whom it was originally commissioned according the Private Eye).<br \/>\nMy biggest worry is self-censorship as these groups hammer away at a media that&#8217;ll eagerly lap up and support this nonsense. I&#8217;m thinking of the Daily Mail and Daily Express here. Just look at America where the vaguest sight of a nipple on free to air television is enough to bring hundreds of thousands of dollar fines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is all getting completely out of hand now. An organisation named The Christian Insitute is claiming that it&#8217;ll be taking the BBC to the High Court as it has &#8220;violated&#8221; its Royal Charter. I&#8217;m actually scared by the sway that some of these organistations are having on our liberty and freedom of expression. I [&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\/992"}],"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=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}