{"id":2796,"date":"2011-01-07T04:09:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T11:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonapollovoss.local\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2018-08-16T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T21:29:12","slug":"our-culture-of-lying-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/2011\/01\/07\/our-culture-of-lying-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Our culture of lying&#8217; strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Thursday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal reported that AT&amp;T has started calling its wireless network a 4G network.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the form of it.\u00a0 The substance is that the network is identical to the 3G network it had up until the moment of its press release.\u00a0 That is, AT&amp;T is lying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">While true that AT&amp;T is building out a massive 4G network, that network is far from complete.\u00a0 But because it lags its competitors and doesn&#8217;t want to lose in the battle for subscribers, its tactic was to lie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Folks, this sort of thing has to end if public trust is going to be restored.\u00a0 As I have written about many times (see for example: <a href=\"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web2009\/09\/13\/our-culture-of-lying\/\">https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web2009\/09\/13\/our-culture-of-lying\/<\/a>), western capitalist culture, most through its marketers, has gotten very used to lying.\u00a0 The problem is that trust is the essential beating heart of capitalism.\u00a0 Without trust between buyers and sellers there is no transaction.\u00a0 Duh!\u00a0 So shame on AT&amp;T for giving fodder to those whose prejudice is so overwhelming that they want to do away with capitalism.\u00a0 Double duh!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Jason<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal reported that AT&amp;T has started calling its wireless network a 4G network.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the form of it.\u00a0 The substance is that the network is identical to the 3G network it had up until the moment of its press release.\u00a0 That is, AT&amp;T is lying. While true that AT&amp;T is building out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}