[CIBvet]

AG Ashcroft needs to attack the cable companies for bundling their product, just as MicroSoft and IBM were hit for bundling their product.

When you pay your cable bill every month to get Fox, cSpan, History Ch. etc, you are also being forced to support MTV 1, MTV 2, Howard Stern, and the rest of the video sewage programs pumped into our homes. Each of these porn-shows receive xx number of cents from our payment each month, just for also being included in the basic package.

If the cable companies were forced to UN-bundle these trashy shows, and make them each stand or fall on their own merit, many if not most, of the porn-trash shows catering to teens & twentysomthings, would FAIL within 6mos.

As it is now, American Moms and Dads are the ones paying/supporting the cable bill, and most, if given a clear choice, wouldn't choose to pay to have their children exposed to harmful, degenerate, programming.

Right now consumers don't have a choice to exclude the vulgar and evil from our living-rooms, if they want even the most basic package.

Having this video-sewage pumped into our homes 24/7 is absolutely destroying families and the nation we've been blessed to live in.

[freepatriot32]

AG Ashcroft needs to attack the cable companies for bundling their product, just as MicroSoft and IBM were hit for bundling their product.

nope sorry not going to happen he is waaaaay to busy going after glass tubes and wooden dugouts to be conserned with that plus right now he is way to high on narcotic painkillers supplied by doctors he will prosocute as soon as he is out of the hospital

[FITZ]

I know --- I wouldn't mind having CSPN, the news cable shows, Discovery and a couple others but since you can't just order the ones you want, I don't have cable at all --- never have. If they ever want my business they'll offer unbundled selections.

[Irene Adler]

"When you pay your cable bill every month to get Fox, cSpan, History Ch. etc, you are also being forced to support MTV 1, MTV 2, Howard Stern, and the rest of the video sewage programs pumped into our homes. Each of these porn-shows receive xx number of cents from our payment each month, just for also being included in the basic package. If the cable companies were forced to UN-bundle these trashy shows, and make them each stand or fall on their own merit, many if not most, of the porn-trash shows catering to teens & twentysomthings, would FAIL within 6mos."

I think I should get to order cable channels, channel-by-channel. I hate putting money in the pockets of those who create programming I feel is trash. Why should I have to pay for it when I never watch it and don't want it on my television?

[imfleck]

Those stations wouldn't be bundled if they didn't make any money.

When you're adjusting your portfolio I don't think you'd keep the bottom nn percent, would you? You'd probably cast those stocks off and find better performing ones.

The same applies to radio and TV. If they don't make money then they get discarded, and they only make money when sponsors pay for them because a lot of people are listening/watching.

You can choose to not have this "vulgar and evil" enter your living room. TURN THE CHANNEL. The "twentysomthings" have as much right to watch or listen to what they want to watch or listen to as much as you do.