Media controllers are getting more aggressive.

Yesterday after hearing that C-SPAN2 was moved off the basic cable line-up (furthering the vacuum of important government information for the public) I picked up my remote control and selected the option to automatically program my TV channels.

The TV cycles through the channels looking for a clean signal, then programs the channel into its memory. I noticed that Channel 15 for C-SPAN1 was one of the channels that was not programmed. The channel still exists, but my TV's programming option did not recognize it.

So both channels 14 and 15 disappear from the lineup. I have to go back and manually add channel 15 to my TV's memory. This is happening, coincidentally, during the senate hearings about the failing banking and finance industry.

I can easily make a conspiracy out of this issue linking corporate mentality to the suppression of public affairs information that every voter should see. They have been going after PBS for years because of Bill Moyers and programs like Frontline.

So double-check your TV's cable channels to make sure you are not missing the important channels upon which you need to make your next election decisions, and please bookmark http://www.cspan.org so you at least have internet access to unbiased coverage of government information.