Editor,
Comcast Cable is abusing its customers and our local educators again.
Not only have cable rates risen three times the rate of inflation since deregulation, which represents price gouging just as the oil companies are doing with the captive driver markets, but Comcast fills the affordable basic channels with irrelevant shopping and religious programming. The high technology service could be used for improving the basic quality of our community life and local governance.
Without any notification, Comcast just moved C-Span 2 off the basic level to a higher fee level service and put Telemundo on the C-Span channel. This has a negative impact on our poorly paid educators, their students and those concerned with maintaining an oversight of government.
The three C-Span channels - C-Span 3 is not on basic - supply our homes and rural communities with intellectual conferences that cover the most up-to-date debates on ideas in our global community.
This is the promise of this technology that Edward R. Murrow said of television. But look at what we have with the private sector owning out public resources! C-Span programs are a great aid to our poorly equipped and supplied education infrastructure.
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The City Council and mayor should think about using this technology more to improve the civic life of our city and require that Comcast include all the C-Span channels in the basic package.
And really, Comcast, with its high rates, should be required to supply this to every home in the city at no fee in the interest of community building.
Bob Anderson,
Daily Lobo reader
