{"id":13352,"date":"2015-04-06T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/whos-in-the-tank-for-comcast\/"},"modified":"2015-04-06T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:16:00","slug":"wer-ist-fur-comcast-im-einsatz","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/articles\/whos-in-the-tank-for-comcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Wer setzt sich f\u00fcr Comcast ein?"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13352","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Comcast is a big, big, spender. It employs an army of lobbyists who use cash to influence everything from telecoms to ag policy (no really, last year it lobbied on the farm bill.) Their influence peddling extends up and down the ballot - from their 124 federal lobbyists, to their state-level meddling through ALEC, all the way down to city-level politics.","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":9027}"],"related_issues":[134,136,2065],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

Comcast ist ein gro\u00dfer Geldgeber. Das Unternehmen besch\u00e4ftigt eine Armee von Lobbyisten, die mit Bargeld alles beeinflussen, von der Telekommunikation bis zur Agrarpolitik (nein, wirklich, letztes Jahr hat das Unternehmen Lobbyarbeit auf der Agrargesetz<\/a>.) Comcast's influence peddling extends up and down the ballot - from their 124 federal lobbyists, to their state-level meddling through ALEC, all the way down to city-level politics. <\/p>

Aufgrund dieser ganzen Ausgaben f\u00fcr Politiker und Astroturfing-Gruppen ist Comcast daran gew\u00f6hnt, seinen Willen durchzusetzen.  <\/p>

But a funny thing happened when the nation's largest cable company attempted to snatch up its next largest rival, Time Warner Cable. The press started calling the firm out for its shoddy service and unseemly political transacting. <\/p>

In den letzten Monaten hat Spencer Woodman eine Reihe von Artikeln dar\u00fcber ver\u00f6ffentlicht, wie Comcast als Ghostwriter f\u00fcr korrupte Politiker Fusionsvorschl\u00e4ge verfasste. Lesen Sie weiter Hier<\/a> wie der ehemalige Au\u00dfenminister von Oregon (jetzt Gouverneur) einen Brief zur Fusionsf\u00f6rderung unterzeichnete, der fast ausschlie\u00dflich von Comcast verfasst wurde. Woodman deckte \u00e4hnliche Machenschaften auf in Hawaii<\/a>, und zuletzt in Chicago.<\/p>

Oh, Chicago, eine Stadt mit einer langen Geschichte politischer Amtsmissbrauchs. In seinem Bericht f\u00fcr Die Nation<\/a>, Woodman shows how Mayor Emmanuel's office used legal loopholes to thwart his Freedom of Information Act request on Emmanuel's letter in support of the Comcast merger. Incidentally, Woodman cites reporting that<\/p>

\"Comcast and its employees had donated over $100,000 to Emanuel’s political activity, including $50,000 to his 'mayoral campaign and his other municipal political organizations' in Chicago.\" <\/p>

Reich.<\/p>

Und heute die New York Times Berichte <\/a>on how Comcast's largess has resulted in letters of support for the merger from<\/p>

\"from the Muskatnuss Big Brothers<\/a>  und Big Sisters in Connecticut, die  Houston Area Urban League<\/a> und sogar die  Dan Marino Stiftung<\/a> in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.\"<\/p>

If that weren't enough, the Times interviewed Geoff Manne from TechFreedom, an industry-front group that fights common sense public interest protections at the Federal Communications Commission. Regarding industry funding Manne told the Times, \"maybe there is some subconscious thing there.\"<\/p>

Anyone with a pulse would call that \"subconscious thing\" pay to play.<\/p>

Comcast verf\u00fcgt vielleicht \u00fcber eine Schar Lobbyisten, eine Menge bestechlicher Politiker und gen\u00fcgend Kunstrasen f\u00fcr den Super Bowl des Lobbyings, aber wir haben Sie.<\/p>

Diese Fusion steht auf der Kippe. Deshalb hat Comcast alle verf\u00fcgbaren Gef\u00e4lligkeiten in Anspruch genommen. Mit Ihrer Hilfe k\u00f6nnen wir diesen Kampf gewinnen. Helfen Sie uns, eine Million Kommentare bei der FCC zu erreichen und einen entscheidenden Schlag f\u00fcr Verbraucherschutz, Wettbewerb und Medienvielfalt zu landen. <\/strong>Handeln Sie noch heute.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"\nWho’s in the tank for Comcast? - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/artikel-2\/wer-ist-fur-comcast-im-einsatz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Who’s in the tank for Comcast?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/artikel-2\/wer-ist-fur-comcast-im-einsatz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/whos-in-the-tank-for-comcast\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/whos-in-the-tank-for-comcast\/\",\"name\":\"Who’s in the tank for Comcast? 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