So the point is-- not to be facetious about it, because I do think there is validity in comparing a true story to history. Cable-- I was there at the beginnings of that, and cable television has actually proven to be a rather remarkable disappointment for the purposes of journalism.
And now we're running into problems where we're starting to see what we believe are the beginnings of the monetization of the internet like cable television . The big step in that direction is, of course, the FCC decision to repeal Title II and net neutrality. That is just a precursor on a potential multi-step path to building internet services into a tiered system, where
But then came cable television . And cable television , which came about initially in West Virginia in the 1970s, then had, and unconsciously at first, it started dividing people. So that dad was in the den watching ESPN.
She, out of college, I think it was, went into the military to crack codes. He had cable television .
And they're like, this story-- that idea is good, but they did so badly. And a lot of cable television has this sort of incentive where the way they differentiate themselves from networks
Everyone watch Jack Paar. But then came cable television . And cable television , which came about initially in West Virginia in the 1970s, then had, and unconsciously at first, it started dividing people.
And everyone in the family was doing something different. And the experience of cable television and the internet in dealing with the United States tends to run counter to my hope and thesis that's in the book.
why aren't people buying Broadband if it's available to them why are Broadband penetration rates in the 50 in the high 50 percentages and cable television and cell phones are up into 80 and 90% ranges those cable TV and cell phones are great but they don't give you all these economic benefits that you find in the Broadband yay papers so how do we
And so you have the internet boom. And so the unbundling of cable television -- people would spend on average about $100 a year on cable.
And so Logan when we talk about the democratization of the media and the ability for creatives to really have multiple platforms, you've been in network and cable television . You're on Netflix. You've been on feature films.
pay and then you get that was a very simple equation CU there was no way for us to get without paying well there was a way but you know sub rting cable television with a box in the basement is not a job for everyone so we had to pay that was a quite straightforward thing it was great for Hollywood because we
Last.fm if they had to ensure that every song that they streamed didn't contribute to a copyright infringement? Basically what we're talking about is eliminating the internet in favor of something a lot more like cable television . Cable television where if you want to put a program on Sky, first you go to Rupert Murdoch's lawyers and you show him the material and they go over it with a fine tooth comb with your insurers, you get clearances for anything that may or may not create a copyright liability, and then you get to put
And so you have the internet boom. Well, it actually took the place of cable television .
continue to go up and satisfaction continues to go down this is because brands are promising us these better and greater things in in more places and in our on the internet on television on cable television on our phones and yet they're not living up to these expectations um in in an age of authenticity like like we live right now
and I realized that because he's a folk artist-- which are these people who are sort of outside artists, they didn't go to college, and they start painting in their 60s-- he said, he had this one hand in cable television . And he had the other hand in the church.
that you abandon your principles, but I can assure you, I write in the book about the Civil Rights Legislation of 1964 and 1965, which actually allowed me to go to a restaurant for the first time. That would never have happened with cable television because Lyndon Johnson would not have been able to put together that coalition of northern Republicans and Texans and others to put them together and overcome this extremely difficult issue. So, here's my prescription: let's turn down the volume. Let's just turn down the volume and
and a television controlled what we could see when and how we could see it and of course all the money was made there as well the money was made by the TV guys right by the people offering it the cable television the produces the networks now the money is sort of centered around the user all of a sudden has shifted from the owner of the
and subject to local regulation, not protected by any speech or press guarantees. That ruling wasn't overruled until 1952. And the court also botched the job when it first encountered cable television . But Stevens got it right in the ACLU case. His opinion first laid out in detail how the internet actually works. Seventy-seven years old at the time.
So, we were judging the manageability of the debt based on the teaser rates. We weren't factoring in what happens. I mean, everybody knows a lot of times you can subscribe to cable television and they'll give you, you know, 3 months free, but obviously at some point, you know, the real rate kicks in. Well, we were trying to base our ability to
packaged stuff being delivered to people. So, the first thought that came to me was this country can easily take them all. It's like on cable television , you put anything.
had been a general view about campaign books which is that it was sort of a dead genre, that people um-especially in an age of 24/7 news and the blogosphere and cable television ,
So Cousteau had moved from home movies to Oscar-winning films to broadcast television, public television, and finally into cable television .