{"id":4723,"date":"2012-01-24T18:30:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T07:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2012-01-24T18:30:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T07:30:51","slug":"national-news-program-spreading-racist-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2012\/01\/national-news-program-spreading-racist-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"National News Program Spreading Racist Jokes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/theprojecttv.com.au\/\">The Project<\/a>, the lighter news program broadcast six nights a week on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Network_Ten\">Network Ten<\/a> in Australia has gone through a number of changes of format and timeslot since its inception.<\/p>\n<p>It has defied this instability &#8211; (usually a recipe for alienating fans) &#8211; and continues to improve its ratings position.<\/p>\n<p>But it isn&#8217;t all improvement, it would appear, after the brace of racist jokes on Twitter this evening:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Really?  Not really necessary.  In fact, not necessary at all &#8211; particularly for a program trying to position itself as an alternative to the traditional news bulletins on Nine and Seven.<\/p>\n<p>The three tweets &#8211; (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/theprojecttv\/status\/161706962621435905\">here<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/theprojecttv\/status\/161706639093792768\">here<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/theprojecttv\/status\/161706516678852609\">here<\/a>) &#8211; have no place on such a program, or a Twitter account promoting it.<\/p>\n<p>Or anywhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Project, the lighter news program broadcast six nights a week on Network Ten in Australia has gone through a number of changes of format and timeslot since its inception. It has defied this instability &#8211; (usually a recipe for alienating fans) &#8211; and continues to improve its ratings position. But it isn&#8217;t all improvement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[373,443,535],"class_list":["post-4723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-networkten","tag-racist","tag-theprojecttv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}