{"id":2167,"date":"2012-02-27T08:08:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T07:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2012-07-10T11:28:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T10:28:50","slug":"mocked-from-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2167","title":{"rendered":"Mocked from Day 1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 10<sup>th<\/sup> September 1963, the day after Wilson announced his plans for a university of the air, at the Labour Party conference (as part of his &#8216;white heat of technology&#8217; speech) the <em>Daily Mail<\/em>\u2019s Emmwood (John Musgrave-Wood) poked fun by reference to popular programmes of the period, including <em>Coronation Street<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Daily Mirror<\/em>\u2019s Stanley Franklin compared (image not featured here) the plan to the &#8216;hot air&#8217; talked by the Tories, indicating if not the paper&#8217;s support for the OU then at least its continual deriding\u00a0of the Conservatives. Vicky (Victor Weisz) in the <em>Evening Standard<\/em> focused on another concern of the period, violence on TV. The cartoons can be found in The British Cartoon Archive is located in Canterbury at the University of Kent&#8217;s Templeman Library and online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoons.ac.uk\/\" >here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 10th September 1963, the day after Wilson announced his plans for a university of the air, at the Labour Party conference (as part of his &#8216;white heat of technology&#8217; speech) the Daily Mail\u2019s Emmwood (John Musgrave-Wood) poked fun by reference to popular programmes of the period, including Coronation Street. The Daily Mirror\u2019s Stanley Franklin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,166,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc","category-history-of-the-ou","category-advertising","category-methods-history-of-the-ou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}