{"id":1129877,"date":"2023-07-12T13:41:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T13:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1666999"},"modified":"2023-07-12T13:41:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T13:41:46","slug":"what-possible-reason-does-the-media-have-for-obsessing-over-the-bbc-presenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/12\/what-possible-reason-does-the-media-have-for-obsessing-over-the-bbc-presenter\/","title":{"rendered":"What possible reason does the media have for obsessing over the BBC presenter\u2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-beyondwords-player=\"true\" contenteditable=\"false\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1667000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-205.png\" alt=\"A cartoon with the title &quot; front page mock up&quot;. On one side is a front page with the headline &quot;Johnson withholds Covid WhatsApp messages and ignores court order&quot;. On the other side is a front page with the headline &quot;Day 6: more speculation about unnamed BBC presenter&quot;. Two editors are pointing at the BBC presenter headline, saying &quot;let's go for this one... again!&quot;\" width=\"3000\" height=\"3000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-205.png 3000w, https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-205-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-205-720x720.png 720w, https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-205-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-205-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-205-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-205-55x55.png 55w, https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-205-403x403.png 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/author\/cartoonralph\/\">Ralph Underhill<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/cartoons\/2023\/07\/12\/what-possible-reason-does-the-media-have-for-obsessing-over-the-bbc-presenter\/\">Canary<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/author\/cartoonralph\/\">Ralph Underhill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2548,32895,2501,5625,338],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129900,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129877\/revisions\/1129900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}