{"id":19141,"date":"2013-02-23T10:52:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T15:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19141"},"modified":"2013-02-23T10:52:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T15:52:35","slug":"qotd-cultural-sovereignty-aka-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/23\/qotd-cultural-sovereignty-aka-piracy\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Cultural Sovereignty&#8221; (aka piracy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Canada originally became one of the most wire-cabled countries in the world because of the insatiable and inviolable addiction of English-speaking Canadians to American programming. To salvage a television industry in Canada, the regulators approved the acquisition of American programming by Canadian channels, which would simulcast them with the networks by or for which they were produced. The Canadian channels were authorized to sell and insert their own advertising on those American programs. This practice, outright piracy in fact, was justified by Canadian media executives as an exercise in \u201ccultural sovereignty\u201d when they appeared before U.S. congressional committees.<\/p>\n<p>Conrad Black, <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2013\/02\/23\/conrad-black-opening-up-the-must-carry-spectrum\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Opening up the must-carry spectrum&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2013-02-23<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada originally became one of the most wire-cabled countries in the world because of the insatiable and inviolable addiction of English-speaking Canadians to American programming. To salvage a television industry in Canada, the regulators approved the acquisition of American programming by Canadian channels, which would simulcast them with the networks by or for which they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,28,41],"tags":[676,469,468,661,101],"class_list":["post-19141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-government","category-media","category-quotations","tag-crtc","tag-monopolies","tag-piracy","tag-regulation","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4YJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19142,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19141\/revisions\/19142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}