Cable Sex Channels

* Your Nov. 4 article on Adelphia’s cutting of adult channels downplayed a rather important issue. Adelphia is using its monopoly status to dictate what the rest of us can see. The philosophical justification for markets is that they encourage options. If one record store decides not to carry certain CDs, that’s OK, because others in the market can offer them. But cable is a monopoly, and this is another example of Adelphia’s abuse.

Add ideologically determined selection to poor service, high prices and cable installers who never show up. Even those of us who don’t want adult programming should be worried about a company that not only thinks it knows better than we do what we should watch, but has the power to enforce it.

HANS NOEL

Los Angeles