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

Comcast 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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