The Nation's Entirely Objective Think Tanks And Consultants Want You To Know Comcast Deal Is Secretly Awesome
This is just about the time when Comcast's lobbyists, PR agencies, "non-partisan" think tanks, consultants and various other policy tendrils all work to create a massive media sound wall insisting that the deal will be really wonderful for consumers.
Via Techdirt:
Comcast faces obvious regulatory and public relation obstacles in getting its $45.2 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable approved, given concerns about vertical integration and scale. Comcast last week got a running start on selling the deal to regulators by insisting that allowing them to get absurdly massive would somehow be "pro-consumer." Comcast's other big argument last week appeared to be the idea that the larger company couldn't possibly use its larger size as anti-competitive leverage, because Google Fiber (with all of its 1,000 or so users) and Hulu (which Comcast co-owns) would...