{"id":922,"date":"2017-08-03T15:33:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/03\/seinfeld-and-simpsons-why-your-favourite-tv-show-is-problematic\/"},"modified":"2017-08-03T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:33:59","slug":"seinfeld-and-simpsons-why-your-favourite-tv-show-is-problematic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=922","title":{"rendered":"Seinfeld and Simpsons \u2013 why your favourite TV show is problematic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Little Britain\u2019s PC-baiting nightmare, to EastEnders\u2019 questionable class portrayal, Guardian writers discuss why they see some of TV\u2019s biggest shows as more than a little troublesomeOver the years, EastEnders has been guilty of all sorts. It has traditionally only ever allowed one black and one Asian family into Albert Square at a time. There was its portrayal of cot death, which turned a normal mother into a frothing, baby-switching maniac. And its weird insistence on reviving dead characters such as Den and Kathy seems to condone a form of witch-doctory that flies in the face of conventional modern medical knowledge. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2017\/aug\/03\/seinfeld-simpsons-sex-and-the-city-favourite-tv-show-problematic\" target=\"_blank\">Seinfeld and Simpsons \u2013 why your favourite TV show is problematic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Little Britain\u2019s PC-baiting nightmare, to EastEnders\u2019 questionable class portrayal, Guardian writers discuss why they see some of TV\u2019s biggest shows as more than a little troublesomeOver the years, EastEnders has been guilty of all sorts. It has traditionally only ever allowed one black and one Asian family into Albert [&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-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}