{"id":1439,"date":"2015-08-31T15:21:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2015-08-31T15:21:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:21:25","slug":"people-need-cable-tv-to-watch-most-debates-is-that-a-poll-tax-the-boston-globe-25-august-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/08\/31\/people-need-cable-tv-to-watch-most-debates-is-that-a-poll-tax-the-boston-globe-25-august-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"People need cable TV to watch most debates. Is that a poll tax? &#8211; The Boston Globe, 25 August 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A large share of the presidential primary season debates will not be aired on free over-the-air broadcast networks. Of the 15 primary season debates, all but five will air on cable TV. That pattern has led Susan Crawford, a Harvard University law professor, to question whether there is something terribly wrong here. Crawford published a piece last week in Medium about the cable subscription fees necessary for interested voters to watch the debates in real time. She said it amounts to nothing short of a poll tax.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2015\/08\/24\/people-need-cable-watch-most-debates-that-poll-tax\/BMrG5nyNgUWnJBdEyocR3I\/story.html\">People need cable TV to watch most debates. Is that a poll tax? &#8211; The Boston Globe<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A large share of the presidential primary season debates will not be aired on free over-the-air broadcast networks. Of the 15 primary season debates, all but five will air on cable TV. That pattern has led Susan Crawford, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/08\/31\/people-need-cable-tv-to-watch-most-debates-is-that-a-poll-tax-the-boston-globe-25-august-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}