{"id":949,"date":"2011-10-06T12:43:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T11:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=949"},"modified":"2011-10-06T12:43:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T11:43:52","slug":"i-watched-a-party-political-broadcast-last-night-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/10\/06\/i-watched-a-party-political-broadcast-last-night-and\/","title":{"rendered":"I watched a party-political broadcast last night, and ..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There seemed nothing to disagree with or take exception to in this PP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaignlive.co.uk\/news\/1097376\/tories-give-party-political-broadcast-slot-east-africa\/\">Broadcast<\/a> which is an odd thing to say, given that much of what you hear in the usual PPBs \u00a0is either tendentious or \"consciously dishonest\" as <a href=\"http:\/\/mla.stanford.edu\/Politics_&amp;_English_language.pdf\">Orwell<\/a> has it in <em>Politics and the English Language, <\/em>from which the following comes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Political language \u2013 and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists \u2013 is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How odd, then, to have this reaction. \u00a0Treading that fine line between credulousness and cynicism has just got harder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seemed nothing to disagree with or take exception to in this PP Broadcast which is an odd thing to say, given that much of what you hear in the usual PPBs \u00a0is either tendentious or \"consciously dishonest\" as Orwell...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}