{"id":7093,"date":"2017-04-11T08:08:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T00:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2017-04-11T08:08:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T00:08:41","slug":"the-real-scandal-of-that-brutal-united-video-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/11\/the-real-scandal-of-that-brutal-united-video-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Scandal of That Brutal United Video &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In this way, the United video serves as a stark metaphor, one where the quiet brutalization of consumers is rendered in shocking, literal form. The first thought that I had watching the outrageous footage of a passenger being dragged through an aisle like a bag of trash was that this should never happen. But fundamentally, this is an old story: Companies in concentrated industries, like the airlines, have legal cover to break the most basic promise to consumers without legally breaking their contracts. The<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2017\/04\/united-video-scandal-law\/522552\/?utm_source=quartzfb\">The Real Scandal of That Brutal United Video &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this way, the United video serves as a stark metaphor, one where the quiet brutalization of consumers is rendered in shocking, literal form. The first thought that I had watching the outrageous footage of a passenger being dragged through an aisle like a bag of trash was that this should never happen. But fundamentally, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/11\/the-real-scandal-of-that-brutal-united-video-the-atlantic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Real Scandal of That Brutal United Video &#8211; The Atlantic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}