{"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":"sino-ang-nasa-tangke-para-sa-comcast","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/articles\/whos-in-the-tank-for-comcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Sino ang nasa tangke para sa Comcast?"},"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":"

Ang Comcast ay isang malaki, malaki, gumastos. Gumagamit ito ng hukbo ng mga tagalobi na gumagamit ng pera para maimpluwensyahan ang lahat mula sa telecom hanggang sa patakarang pang-agrikultura (hindi talaga, noong nakaraang taon ay nag-lobby ito sa bayarin sa bukid<\/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>

Ang lahat ng paggastos na ito sa mga pulitiko at mga grupo ng astroturf ay nag-iwan sa Comcast na nasanay sa paraan.  <\/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>

Sa nakalipas na ilang buwan, nag-publish si Spencer Woodman ng isang serye ng mga artikulo sa kung paano sumulat ang Comcast ghost ng pro-merger para sa mga pulitiko sa pagkuha. Basahin dito<\/a> kung paano nilagdaan ng dating Kalihim ng Estado ng Oregon (ngayon ay Gobernador), ang isang liham na pro-merger na isinulat halos lahat ng Comcast. Natuklasan ng Woodman ang mga katulad na kalokohan Hawaii<\/a>, at pinakahuli sa Chicago.<\/p>

Oh, Chicago, isang bayan na may kuwentong kasaysayan ng pampulitikang malfeasance. Sa kanyang ulat para sa Ang Bansa<\/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>

Mayaman.<\/p>

At ngayon ang New York Times mga ulat <\/a>on how Comcast's largess has resulted in letters of support for the merger from<\/p>

\"from the Nutmeg Big Brothers<\/a>  at Big Sisters sa Connecticut, ang  Houston Area Urban League<\/a> at maging ang  Dan Marino Foundation<\/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>

Ang Comcast ay maaaring magkaroon ng isang grupo ng mga tagalobi, isang passel ng mga pulitiko sa take, at sapat na Astroturf para sa Super Bowl ng lobbying, ngunit mayroon kami sa iyo.<\/p>

Ang pagsasanib na ito ay nasa mga lubid. Iyon ang dahilan kung bakit tinawag ng Comcast ang bawat pabor na magagawa nito. Sa tulong mo kaya nating manalo sa laban na ito. Tulungan kaming makakuha ng isang milyong komento sa FCC, at magkaroon ng knockout blow para sa proteksyon ng consumer, kompetisyon, at pagkakaiba-iba ng media. <\/strong>Kumilos ngayon.<\/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\/tl\/mga-artikulo-2\/sino-ang-nasa-tangke-para-sa-comcast\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\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\/tl\/mga-artikulo-2\/sino-ang-nasa-tangke-para-sa-comcast\/\" \/>\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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