The Charter/Disney Conflict Is A Canary In The Coal Mine That TV Programing Bundling Is Dying!

Our elected officials in Washington should do more to establish fair and good prices for TV programing for the American consumer. Currently Charter Communications and Disney are in a big negotiation showdown over the pricing Charter needs to pay for Disney programming; currently Charter is a cable TV provider and is threatening to get out of the industry unless Disney agrees to their terms. Our representatives in Washington should be looking at this overall issue from the standpoint that we as a government should be seeing that our nation's families have fair and reasonable pricing for TV programing. Representatives shouldn't want American families to have the burden of signing up and paying for an abundance of streaming services; they should want the industry to provide good programming "bundles" at affordable rates for the American people whether it be from cable or satellite dish providers or internet bundle service providers. I don't no how the government can justify forcing all the programming companies to provide "all" their programming to bundle providers at a fair and low rate. But I think the government does have a legitimate basis for forcing the program providers for all news and all live sports at providing their programing content at fair prices. The media programming because it aids and facilitates American citizens becoming informed citizens about the world and knowledgeable citizens that can make well informed judgments when voting for candidates and on referendum issues on ballots! The Federal government also has justification for requiring that "live sports" programming be required to be provided because people being able to view their local sports team or a favorite collegiate team connects people to their community it unifies communities and creates support for communities, and it provides a valuable resource for promoting good mental health for people generally by providing an outlet for getting relief from life's stresses and fostering good emotional health! At what prices government should mandate these content providers provide their content is rather unclear maybe the process needs to start with what are these content providers costs. I am sure that if elected officials tried to establish some good public policy here the lobbyists for the TV programming companies would use all their weapons excuse me tools to block this effort, nevertheless if elected officials do their duty they would take some legislative action here because what our nation will be seeing here is wealthy Americans receiving a broad selection of programming because they can afford to pay for it and mainstream Americans getting slim or troubling lacking pickings on programing and this won't be a good America our government will have failed our people!