{"id":135,"date":"2004-09-17T18:33:24","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T18:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2004-09-17T18:33:24","modified_gmt":"2004-09-17T18:33:24","slug":"mediawatch-fundamentally-decent-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"[mediawatch] Fundamentally Decent Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So on Wednesday there was a protest at Parliament about the bill to ban fox hunting.  Quite apart from the issue at hand, it has been disturbing to see how it was covered.<br \/>\nThere has been a lot of comment about the protest.  Ten to twenty thousand people were involved and it turned nasty, with some violence and blood flowing.  Most importantly (in the eyes of the press) a bunch of protestors breached the House of Commons.<br \/>\nLuckily for all, these protestors were fundamentally decent citizens who have been treated appallingly and are sticking up for themselves.  In fact, here are <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/3662254.stm\">some fawning profiles<\/a> of these brave citizens.<br \/>\n(Trust me, it was worse in the print media &#8211; loads of snazzy photos of handsome young men looking upstanding, with royals in shot if possible.)<br \/>\nHmm.  I seem to detect a slightly different flavour to the coverage of this protest than that accorded a certain other protest in recent memory.  That one against the Iraq war?<br \/>\nIt almost makes one suspect that, here in the UK, there are unresolved issues of class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So on Wednesday there was a protest at Parliament about the bill to ban fox hunting. Quite apart from the issue at hand, it has been disturbing to see how it was covered. There has been a lot of comment about the protest. Ten to twenty thousand people were involved and it turned nasty, with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[mediawatch] Fundamentally Decent Citizens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediawatch"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-2b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}