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Guest Column: What's Decent? An Eternal, and Internal, Question.
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Cable World
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January 9, 2006
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By John E. Roos
"What's decent?" That question was posed on the Nov. 7 cover of this magazine. A bold question to ask an industry proud to have broken the mold of the three-network moral monopoly. In its place, an ever-expanding cavalcade of niches, all delivered through one pipe.
Cable has become a medium for everyone. Men and women. Rockers and hillbillies. The new immigrant and Brahmin. Buddhists and Baptists. Radicals and reactionaries, and everyone in between.
After all, the industry committed a decade to being all about "choice." What better choice than to have all of the options the world could offer at your clicking finger tip.
Almost 100 years ...