{"id":117200,"date":"2019-11-02T01:01:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/02\/channel-4s-smuggled-criticised-as-insensitive-in-wake-of-lorry-deaths\/"},"modified":"2019-11-02T01:01:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T00:01:06","slug":"channel-4s-smuggled-criticised-as-insensitive-in-wake-of-lorry-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=117200","title":{"rendered":"Channel 4&#039;s Smuggled criticised as insensitive in wake of lorry deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home Office hits out at decision to broadcast programme so soon after Essex tragedyThe Home Office has criticised Channel 4 as \u201cinsensitive and irresponsible\u201d after the broadcaster said a programme in which contestants attempt to \u201csmuggle\u201d themselves into the UK would go ahead less than a fortnight after the Essex migrant tragedy.The screening of the first episode of Smuggled, a two-part series billed by Channel 4 as \u201cthe largest test of our borders ever conducted by the media\u201d, was postponed last week after the bodies of 39 people were found inside a lorry container on an industrial estate in Grays. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2019\/nov\/02\/channel-4s-smuggled-criticised-as-insensitive-in-wake-of-lorry-deaths\" target=\"_blank\">Channel 4&#039;s Smuggled criticised as insensitive in wake of lorry deaths<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Office hits out at decision to broadcast programme so soon after Essex tragedyThe Home Office has criticised Channel 4 as \u201cinsensitive and irresponsible\u201d after the broadcaster said a programme in which contestants attempt to \u201csmuggle\u201d themselves into the UK would go ahead less than a fortnight after the Essex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}