{"id":147,"date":"2016-10-05T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/10\/05\/rolling-stone-declares-the-sopranos-the-greatest-tv-show\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T18:11:00","slug":"rolling-stone-declares-the-sopranos-the-greatest-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/10\/05\/rolling-stone-declares-the-sopranos-the-greatest-tv-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stone declares The Sopranos the greatest TV show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv\/lists\/100-greatest-tv-shows-of-all-time-w439520\/\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-tMPy1JaLHyw\/V_VCHDBP7pI\/AAAAAAAACng\/cz9W4eq8OzAVh9gixpXvfVAMsQkUxv7pQCLcB\/s400\/tony.gif\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Alright, everyone gather &#8217;round, we have another Top 100 list to fight over.<\/p>\n<p>This time, <i>Rolling Stone<\/i> put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv\/lists\/100-greatest-tv-shows-of-all-time-w439520\/\">its list of what it considers the greatest television shows of all time<\/a> . The top of the list is pretty much what you&#8217;d expect \u2013 <i>The Sopranos<\/i>, <i>Mad Men<\/i>, <i>Breaking Bad<\/i>, <i>The Simpsons<\/i>, et al. \u2013 but as with all these similar lists, we liked seeing that rounded out the rest of the top 100. <i>Rolling Stone<\/i> included game shows, talk shows, animation, and reality TV in addition to scripted series, so they cast a wide net.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, <i>Rolling Stone<\/i> didn&#8217;t intentionally try to get such an eclectic mix. They sent ballots out to a wide range of television industry figures, and the results they got back just happened to be such a jumble. It reflects well on the past, present, and current state of television: even if the Difficult Men genre still gets the most accolades, TV is a unique space where <i>Jeopardy<\/i> and <i>The Golden Girls<\/i> can live side-by-side.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, everyone gather &#8217;round, we have another Top 100 list to fight over. This time, Rolling Stone put together its list of what it considers the greatest television shows of all time . The top of the list is pretty much what you&#8217;d expect \u2013 The Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Simpsons, et al. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[212,213],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-links-of-interest","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}