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shagan@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Susan Hagan) writes:

>Cable companies face no direct competition.  There are no market forces
>which drive their industry.  Period.

Not true.

	(1) Cable is not a necessity for life.  I should know, I don't
have it and I'm still alive.  So, if the cable companies raise their
rates too high they will loose so many customers that they will
actually make *less* money.  In fact, the reason I don't have it is
because I think its too expensive given my current impoverished state
of existence.

	(2) The broadcast channels compete with cable.  Even though I
only get two channels in my present location, that is enought to keep
me from wanting cable.  Also, other forms media *do* compete cable.
If you are incapable of begin entertained by other forms of media,
that is *your* problem.

I find amusing and distressing the attitude of some people that other
people should be forced to provide everything for them even including
entertainment. 

Darrell