{"id":1974,"date":"2016-07-07T15:59:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2016-07-07T15:59:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:59:26","slug":"small-towns-join-forces-to-bridge-the-digital-divide-pbs-newshour-3-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2016\/07\/07\/small-towns-join-forces-to-bridge-the-digital-divide-pbs-newshour-3-july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Small towns join forces to bridge the digital divide | PBS NewsHour, 3 July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Crawford of the Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society says that large corporations don\u2019t see it in their financial interests to connect smaller areas.\u201cThey are responding rationally to Wall Street, and Wall Street wants them to keep their profits up very high,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd for them, it\u2019s not as profitable to run a wire to a remote, isolated area with a few houses in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/small-towns-join-forces-to-bridge-the-digital-divide\/\">Small towns join forces to bridge the digital divide | PBS NewsHour<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Crawford of the Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society says that large corporations don\u2019t see it in their financial interests to connect smaller areas.\u201cThey are responding rationally to Wall Street, and Wall Street wants them to keep their profits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2016\/07\/07\/small-towns-join-forces-to-bridge-the-digital-divide-pbs-newshour-3-july-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974","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\/1974","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\/7937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}