{"id":714181,"date":"2010-04-12T07:03:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.33981"},"modified":"2010-04-12T07:11:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:11:39","slug":"lynn-sweet-on-bbc-on-presidential-debates-as-british-pm-hopefuls-debate-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/714181","title":{"rendered":"Lynn Sweet on BBC on presidential debates&#8211;as British PM hopefuls debate for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00rvzr1\">Listen to Lynn Sweet on the BBC &#8220;Americana<\/a>&#8221; show discuss famous U.S. presidential debates&#8211;as Britian hold its first ever televised debates with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown facing his major rivals<\/p>\n<p>A primer on why United Kingdom voters will see three debates&#8211; from Foreign Policy magazine&#8212; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2010\/04\/06\/why_didnt_britain_have_televised_debates_before_now\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>excerpt from FP:<em><\/p>\n<p>Gordon Brown, Britain&#8217;s embattled prime minister, announced Tuesday that he will hold the country&#8217;s most hotly contested general election in a generation on May 6, four weeks from now. Before then, the Labour leader will face off in a contest of a very different sort: three televised debates against the heads of the two other major parties, the Liberal Democrats&#8217; Nick Clegg and the Tories&#8217; David Cameron. The debates &#8212; set for April 15, 22, and 29 &#8212; are the first such events in British history. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to Lynn Sweet on the BBC &#8220;Americana&#8221; show discuss famous U.S. presidential debates&#8211;as Britian hold its first ever televised debates with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown facing his major rivals A primer on why United Kingdom voters will see three debates&#8211; from Foreign Policy magazine&#8212; is here. excerpt from FP: Gordon Brown, Britain&#8217;s embattled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2683,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZN3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}