{"id":8983,"date":"2008-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"bbc-scandal-dominates-the-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/bbc-scandal-dominates-the-papers.html","title":{"rendered":"BBC scandal dominates the papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">BBC UK News &#8211; Anger over the prank phone messages left for the actor, Andrew Sachs, is vented in the editorials&nbsp;of six papers. <\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined the attack and the Sun says the scandal is now beyond the BBC&#8217;s control.  <\/p>\n<p>The Independent says the BBC&#8217;s apology seemed to reflect more a fear of the press than a proper sense of moral obligation. <\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail says BBC managers, with their metropolitan mindsets, could not see what the fuss was about. <!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>The Independent&#8217;s lead is that some of the world&#8217;s largest hedge funds could lose billions after betting on the shares of carmaker Volkswagen. <\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/7696753.stm\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC UK News &#8211; Anger over the prank phone messages left for the actor, Andrew Sachs, is vented in the editorials&nbsp;of six papers. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined the attack and the Sun says the scandal is now beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3439,3441,3130,2736,1065,1172,2814,2738,3440,2667,3435],"class_list":["post-8983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-alarm-bells","tag-barliant","tag-british-government-officials","tag-court-of-appeal","tag-debts","tag-hamptons","tag-opposition","tag-private-ownership","tag-russian-tycoon","tag-special-interests","tag-steep-rise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}