{"id":190389,"date":"2009-12-03T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/03\/crap-that-we-should-be-stopping\/"},"modified":"2009-12-03T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T03:30:00","slug":"crap-that-we-should-be-stopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/03\/crap-that-we-should-be-stopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Crap That We Should Be Stopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Barack Obama was supposed to be about anything, he was supposed to be about engaging in at least marginal meaningful antitrust and consumer protections, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/04\/business\/media\/04nbc.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">Comcast buying NBC Eniversal<\/a>, (NBC, Universal Studios, NBC Universal Television Group, NBC News, USA Network, Syfy, CNBC, MSNBC cable TV, NBC.com, MSNBC.com, iVillage, Bravo, qubo, Telemundo Television Studios, The Weather Channel, and Hulu according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nbc_universal\">Wiki<\/a>) is the antithesis of this.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that this sale will proceed without any major interference from Barack Obama and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>, because Barack Obama really <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">isn&#8217;t<\/span> about anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Barack Obama was supposed to be about anything, he was supposed to be about engaging in at least marginal meaningful antitrust and consumer protections, and Comcast buying NBC Eniversal, (NBC, Universal Studios, NBC Universal Television Group, NBC News, USA Network, Syfy, CNBC, MSNBC cable TV, NBC.com, MSNBC.com, iVillage, Bravo, qubo, Telemundo Television Studios, The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,1004,1064,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-finance","category-media","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}