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04-24-2014, 08:32 PM
How Comcast gets whatever it wants despite being one of America’s most hated companies
http://c2.bgr.com/2014/04/comcast-center.jpg?w=610 (http://bgr.com/2014/04/24/why-is-comcast-so-bad-2/)Comcast may be one of the most hated companies in the United States (http://bgr.com/2014/04/08/comcast-worst-company-in-america/), but it does have a lot of friends where it matters most: In government. OpenSecrets does a nice job (http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/04/the-comcast-fcc-revolving-door.html) of breaking*down Comcast's (http://bgr.com/tag/comcast) extensive ties to current and former government officials, headlined by former FCC commissioner Meredith Baker, who became a lobbyist for Comcast right after leaving her post at the commission, and former FCC chairman Michael Powell, who is **w lobbying in favor of the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger as the head of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association.
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http://c2.bgr.com/2014/04/comcast-center.jpg?w=610 (http://bgr.com/2014/04/24/why-is-comcast-so-bad-2/)Comcast may be one of the most hated companies in the United States (http://bgr.com/2014/04/08/comcast-worst-company-in-america/), but it does have a lot of friends where it matters most: In government. OpenSecrets does a nice job (http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/04/the-comcast-fcc-revolving-door.html) of breaking*down Comcast's (http://bgr.com/tag/comcast) extensive ties to current and former government officials, headlined by former FCC commissioner Meredith Baker, who became a lobbyist for Comcast right after leaving her post at the commission, and former FCC chairman Michael Powell, who is **w lobbying in favor of the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger as the head of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association.
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