Or maybe they do.

I'm a user of 'leased access', a law created by Congress in 1984 that requires all cable sites to set aside airtime for use mainly by local programmers unaffiliated with the cable operator. Congress was very clear they intended this to provide some competition but today's members of Congress seem to be the recipients of cable industry contributions to the extend they do not, will not, see that FCC makes cable play fair.

Most leased access programmers struggle to get by while the cable industry’s political action committee passes out thousand dollar bills to members of Congress as if it were candy. There’s strong evidence this largess extends to staff members at FCC since they so overtly favor cable in disputes with leased access programmers.

So, maybe I’m wrong and in fact members of Congress and some at FCC ‘do get it’. They get it by the handfuls.