{"id":427,"date":"2002-09-30T13:38:02","date_gmt":"2002-09-30T17:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=427"},"modified":"2002-09-30T13:38:02","modified_gmt":"2002-09-30T17:38:02","slug":"news-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"news values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two retired MPs turn out to have had an affair in the 1980s. A still active politician (and MP) turns out to have ordered the murder of ten people in the 1970s. Which of these stories is news?<\/p>\n\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWhy ask? Even in the <em>Daily Telegraph<\/em> gave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2002\/09\/30\/nira30.xml&amp;sSheet=\/news\/2002\/09\/30\/ixhome.html\">a quarter of page eight<\/a> to Gerry Adams; and almost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2002\/09\/30\/nmajor30.xml&amp;sSheet=\/news\/2002\/09\/30\/ixnewstop.html\" title=\"Telegraph on Ediwna C\">all of page 3<\/a>, plus a big chunk on the front, to John Major and Edwina Currie.<\/p>\n\n<p>I suppose this shows what the British public thought of Gerry Adams all along.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two retired MPs turn out to have had an affair in the 1980s. A still active politician (and MP) turns out to have ordered the murder of ten people in the 1970s. Which of these stories is news? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=427\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}