{"id":902,"date":"2025-07-23T10:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/?p=902"},"modified":"2025-07-23T10:59:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:59:37","slug":"the-more-things-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/the-more-things-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The More Things Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us not forget that Television is one part broadcasting, one part advertising and one part <em>programing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-903\" src=\"https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1753293175982-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1753293175982-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1753293175982-1024x524.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1753293175982-768x393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FB_IMG_1753293175982.jpg 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CBS canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1969, &#8220;officially&#8221; citing their failure to meet contractual pre-air delivery dates for episodes. (a purely business decision) However, the true reason was the ongoing conflict with the network over the show&#8217;s controversial political satire and social commentary, particularly regarding the Vietnam War and civil rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us not forget that Television is one part broadcasting, one part advertising and one part programing. CBS canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1969, &#8220;officially&#8221; citing their failure to meet contractual pre-air delivery dates for episodes. (a purely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/the-more-things-change\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gop","category-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1man1vote.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}