{"id":630,"date":"2013-07-02T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/07\/02\/entertainment-weekly-crowns-citizen-kane-the-wire-the-greatest\/"},"modified":"2013-07-02T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T16:04:00","slug":"entertainment-weekly-crowns-citizen-kane-the-wire-the-greatest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/07\/02\/entertainment-weekly-crowns-citizen-kane-the-wire-the-greatest\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment Weekly crowns Citizen Kane, The Wire the greatest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/package\/0,,20712079,00.html\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"211\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-xyjO8NKJlFo\/UdL5oeVIk9I\/AAAAAAAAAq4\/a4pVQY_wY7w\/s320\/test.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Many organizations \u2013 <i>Sight &amp; Sound<\/i>, the AFI, and IMDb to name a few \u2013 have created lists of what they consider the greatest films of all time. Now add <i>Entertainment Weekly<\/i> to that list. On Sunday, the weekly media magazine published a list of, in the view of its editorial staff, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/package\/0,,20712079,00.html\">the greatest movies and television shows of all time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The top choices are no surprise. <i><i>Citizen Kane<\/i><\/i> and <i>The Wire<\/i> were voted the best in their respective categories; <i>The Godfather<\/i>, <i>The Simpsons<\/i>, <i>Casablanca<\/i>, <i>The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/i>, et al. round out the top ten. But their lists gave a few wild cards too, like the inclusion of the lost 1950 variety hour <i>Your Show of Shows<\/i> as the tenth best television program. <i>Entertainment Weekly<\/i>&#8216;s site also includes an article about how the publication went about choosing their list.<\/p>\n<p>Though <i>EW<\/i>&#8216;s website does not produce the lists in full outside their print edition, they&#8217;re worth seeking out. Though imperfect, <i>Entertainment Weekly<\/i>&#8216;s lists are a complete critical assessment of the history of two mediums, stretching from their earliest days to the present.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many organizations \u2013 Sight &amp; Sound, the AFI, and IMDb to name a few \u2013 have created lists of what they consider the greatest films of all time. Now add Entertainment Weekly to that list. On Sunday, the weekly media magazine published a list of, in the view of its editorial staff, the greatest movies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212,213],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links-of-interest","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","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=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}