After previously touting a flawed cost-benefit analysis as a basis to reject requiring cable à la carte, the FCC is now showing signs of reversing course. The Wall St. Journal reports that new FCC chairman Kevin Martin said in a public forum that à la carte pricing for cable service "could be economically feasible and in consumers' best interests," conceding that the earlier cost-benefit assessment was flawed. Ah, but the bad news (if you're a grown-up and want to have television for grown-ups), from USA Today: Declaring television coarser than ever, a top federal regulator served notice on cable and satellite programmers Tuesday to shield children from racy shows or risk coming under sharper government scrutiny. "Parents need better and more tools to help them navigate the entertainment waters, particularly on cable and satellite TV," Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin told Congress. Martin apparently views cable à la carte as one tool to ensure bland family-friendly TV -- another being "expanding federal decency standards to include cable and satellite programs."