Under pressure from the government, the nation's two largest cable companies and several others announced Monday a plan to offer packages of family friendly channels to give parents another option to shield children from sex, rough language and violence.But it's funny how everyone is all in favor of free markets, except in the case of television. Everyone rabbits on about how much sex and violence there is on TV, and yet all the sexy, violent programming is what people watch. Obviously, if people really hated this stuff, they wouldn't watch it, and thus the ratings would tank in favor of less sexy, less violent fare, and thus Hollywood would acquiesce in this new direction. Isn't that why we have all the crap on TV to begin with, because people watch it?
Personally, I don't care either way, but it seems a tad inconsistent to me.
And what's this about?
Most cable executives have wholly dismissed the idea of a la carte, saying it would drive up costs and lead to the demise of channels that can't attract enough advertising dollars.Well, yeah. I mean, all my favorite shows have been cancelled because they couldn't pull in advertising dollars. Suddenly everyone is in favor of protecting that which can't attract advertising?
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