{"id":489465,"date":"2010-03-30T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100329\/0317078760.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-30T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T16:49:00","slug":"back-when-broadcast-tv-tried-to-convince-the-world-that-cable-was-a-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/489465","title":{"rendered":"Back When Broadcast TV Tried To Convince The World That Cable Was A Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the same old story we’ve seen over and over again: a new technology comes along and the industry it disrupts tries to demonize that technology as an evil that must be stopped. And yet, the “evil” never really turns out to be that bad, but it’s sometimes amusing to go back and see what was said at the time. Karl Bode<\/a> points us to this fun little commercial that network TV stations apparently put out in the early days of cable TV, warning how “pay TV is the monster in your living room.”<\/a> And, it urges viewers to “let your lawmakers know” in order to “save free television”:
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It’s the same old story we’ve seen over and over again: a new technology comes along and the industry it disrupts tries to demonize that technology as an evil that must be stopped. And yet, the “evil” never really turns out to be that bad, but it’s sometimes amusing to go back and see what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}