Saw this article from Slashdot, on the comparison between United States and other countries in the penetration, bandwidth, and cost, of internet access.

Very revealing.  And again, quite the lesson in civics, like others I've had on this site.  Once again the hand-in-glove working of corporations buying laws and politicians to write laws, indifferent to the effects of these to the U.S. well-being.

So what's the answer?

The people who buy the most TV ads buy money.
The politicians who are friendliest to businesses get the most money.
The TV channels for the most part are extensions of corporations, and have similar interests to most other corporations. (This is a simplification, of course, but the point is valid).
These politicians allow lobbyists to either have a big say, or write themselves, laws benefitting corporations for the short-term.


And the cycle continues.