Indeed, the story goes back years, to a time before Fox News or CNN was even founded. The video guerrillas’ hopes for cable television as a venue for nonprofit and viewer-created programming soon faded. For Lamb, cable television offered a meaningful path to shift power from elitist television networks to individual viewers, providing voters with more information and more transparency into Washington. The history of the cable industry highlights the consequences of allowing such a powerful medium to develop with little or no democratic oversight. For the past 50 years, boosters of the cable industry made the case that the marketplace could deliver for American consumers and citizens.

Source: CNN August 13, 2023 13:08 UTC