How Comcast gets whatever it wants despite being one of America’s most hated companie
 

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=610Comcast may be one of the most hated companies in the United States, but it does have a lot of friends where it matters most: In government. OpenSecrets does a nice job of breaking*down Comcast's 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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