Monday.....Miscellaneous.....Television On Your Computer

A la carte Cable Television, I have written about this at least once a month for I'm convinced that the implication of this change in regulations could be culture changing. The American public is in bondage to the cable broadcasting industry. We have to purchase bundled packages of stations thereby supporting television programming that, in many cases, promotes everything that we do not believe in. It plays upon our weakness of surfing the channels, the result is wasting time and killing discernment on important issues of the day. Slick political campaigns that utilize every area of television programming and play upon a gullible public, are putting people in Washington D. C. that would never get there without this medium as it exists now. How many times a week do you find yourself reading the headlines on issues that are essentially cultural themes and just shake your head? Please consider the cable packages that enter about 80 million American homes the next time you wonder where we are going. This issue of a la carte cable has been in the news in the past week. A Wall Street Journal article of July 6 reported this situation: The cable broadcasting industry is concerned that if consumers begin to go to their PCs for television programming, en masse, they would be dropping their services, receiving television programming for free, and the cable industry may collapse. Therefore the industry wants regulations to enable them to tie package deals on the Internet into their customers regular cable subscription. At present this is being called TV Everywhere. The result would be the same bundled packaging on the Internet only you will be paying for it. A number of consumer groups are active on this issue with the hope of lowering cable bills through a la carte cable. There are also groups that want a la carte cable for the reason that I do and that is to give Americans a chance to bring only programming they want into their home which would also send a strong message to television execs to change their programming. Next year at this time, as the new round of Congressional races are heating up, there will be Republican candidates that will need fresh ideas to win. This concept of paying only for televisions stations that you want has the potential to reverberate through the conservative community and even outside of it. I hope to contact these candidates as they announce and implore of them to bring this issue out into the open.