{"id":140,"date":"2009-10-08T20:28:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T19:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/?p=140"},"modified":"2009-10-08T20:41:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T19:41:46","slug":"wtfchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/2009\/10\/08\/wtfchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"WTFchdog?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh yes, I just did that title.  It&#8217;s not as disappointingly lame, however, as the subject in question.<\/p>\n<p>Watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>On the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago I enjoyed watching it &#8211; it was informative, it got things done and was a good watch.<\/p>\n<p>Now either I&#8217;ve got massively more intelligent or this show has gone downhill faster than a freewheeling wheelbarrow full of lead on a 50% incline.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly.  It&#8217;s 80% bullshit &#8220;hilarious&#8221; skits, 5% studio audience opinion, 5% awful presenter &#8220;chatting&#8221;, 5% meaningless &#8220;tests&#8221;\/&#8221;proof&#8221; and&#8230; oh&#8230; 5% actual investigation into issues.  These investigations seem <i>so<\/i> one sided I am spending some of the show actually feeling angry <i>for<\/i> those being accused.<\/p>\n<p>I have admittedly only seen 30 minutes of this, but it does seem to be aimed at an ex-X Factor audience who found Cowell&#8217;s show &#8220;a bit hard to grasp&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bloody awful, BBC.  Must try harder.<\/p>\n<p>Pat<\/p>\n<p><small>Feeling: Annoyed<br \/>\nSong in Head: Nowt&#8230;<\/small><\/p>\n<p>EDIT: I&#8217;ve watched a bit more of this and in their credit they <i>did<\/i> clarify some stuff on the Digital Switchover that was actually of use.  Perhaps I&#8217;m being a bit too harsh on it &#8211; but it does seem to be rather production\/shit heavy and content light&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh yes, I just did that title. It&#8217;s not as disappointingly lame, however, as the subject in question. Watchdog. On the BBC. A few years ago I enjoyed watching it &#8211; it was informative, it got things done and was a good watch. Now either I&#8217;ve got massively more intelligent or this show has gone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}