{"id":1844,"date":"2016-04-07T08:28:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T08:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2016-04-07T08:28:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T08:28:58","slug":"the-news-agenda-132-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-news-agenda-132-april-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The news agenda (132, April 2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions which comes up again and again at different\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/\">Banter<\/a>\u00a0discussions is to do with\u00a0who sets the news agenda. Be it the general election or Syria, people are curious about why certain stories make the mix, the filters which are used to make those decisions and the stories which don\u2019t make the cut as a result.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1845\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/78284-6TWTm_ZktSaC9_BLTBRpQg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1845\" src=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/78284-6TWTm_ZktSaC9_BLTBRpQg.jpg\" alt=\"Journalists work in the main newsroom area of the new Al Jazeera America television broadcast studio on West 34th Street August 16, 2013 in New York. Al Jazeera America, which will launch on August 20, will have its headquarters in New York. AFP PHOTO\/Stan HONDA\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/78284-6TWTm_ZktSaC9_BLTBRpQg.jpg 600w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/78284-6TWTm_ZktSaC9_BLTBRpQg-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/78284-6TWTm_ZktSaC9_BLTBRpQg-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Journalists work in the main newsroom area of the new Al Jazeera America television broadcast studio on West 34th Street August 16, 2013 in New York. Al Jazeera America, which will launch on August 20, will have its headquarters in New York. AFP PHOTO\/Stan HONDA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This Banter discussion brings together a number of editors and producers to talk about their work, the decisions they make, the factors which inform those decisions and other issues around the editorial process. No doubt the question \u201cis this news?\u201d will be asked at least once on the night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Banter news agenda panel<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BiddyEarly\">Susan Daly<\/a>\u00a0(editor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thejournal.ie\/\">The Journal<\/a>),\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/roakleyIRL\">Richie Oakley<\/a>\u00a0(editor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thetimes.ie\/\">The Times Ireland edition<\/a>) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MurphyVincent\">Vincent Murphy<\/a>\u00a0(editor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rte.ie\/radio1\/morning-ireland\">Morning Ireland<\/a>, RTE Radio One)<\/p>\n<p>The small print: Banter on the news agenda takes place at Wigwam (Middle Abbey St., Dublin 1) on Wednesday April 27. Doors open at 6pm and the discussion begins at 6.30pm sharp. Tickets can be reserved\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/banternews.eventbrite.ie\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the questions which comes up again and again at different\u00a0Banter\u00a0discussions is to do with\u00a0who sets the news agenda. Be it the general election or Syria, people are curious about why certain stories make the mix, the filters which are used to make those decisions and the stories which don\u2019t make the cut as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-news-agenda-132-april-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The news agenda (132, April 2016)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}