Rising TV Fees Mean All Viewers Pay to Keep Sports Fans Happy

> The only short-term fix, he said, was government intervention.

Why do people have a knee-jerk reaction of turning to the government to fix everything that they see as being wrong?

Cable is a purely private enterprise. If it was a monopoly, then government intervention might be warranted. But there are plenty of alternatives to cable TV: Over-the-air broadcasts, satellite, Youtube, Hulu, Netflix...

If customers are unhappy with the situation, they can quit, ask the cable company to change, or start their own cable network with better pricing.