Comcast 'Insulted' By Concerns Over Their Funding of FCC Dinner Wednesday Aug 13 2014 09:37 EDT Tipped by newview Reports this week emerged that Comcast was contributing $110,000 and Time Warner Cable was contributing $22,000 to sponsor the Walter Kaitz Foundation’s annual dinner in September. The dinner, which promotes diversity in the cable industry, will this year honor FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. When asked whether or not funding a dinner honoring someone who is currently reviewing the proposed merger of the two companies might be a bit -- inappropriate -- Comcast got "insulted": quote: “We absolutely dispute the notion that our contributions have anything to do with currying favor with Commissioner Clyburn or any honoree,” she said in a statement. “Such claims are insulting and not supported by any evidence. They are purely fiction. We have supported the organization year in and year out regardless of who the dinner honorees have been."
Granted, Comcast supports the organization in large part because the broadband industry has a long, long history of throwing money at minority groups so they'll support whatever Comcast tells them to (in turn working against the interests of the very same constituents these groups claim to represent). Clyburn herself criticized this practice of "co-opting" such groups for PR and policy back in 2010. |
Mike Mod join:2000-09-17 Pittsburgh, PA
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Mike
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2014-Aug-13 9:15 am
Quickly more smokeDamn it people are seeing through this one.... TO THE SMOKE MACHINE | |
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AlexNYC
Member
2014-Aug-13 10:12 am
The best FCC money can buy!Isn't this how they got rid of the unencrypted ATSC signal and required everyone to "rent" a crappy cable box?
I used to be able to get the local TV channels in HD for without a cable box, then I used AEREO. Now both of these options are gone. The government is feverishly protecting the cable companies because of all the lobbyists and the money they bring. | |
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