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By ASHLEY PARKER
WASHINGTON For Senator Al Franken, the political became personal at a Saturday Night Live cast party, of all places.
It was there in New York two years ago that Mr. Franken, a Minnesota Democrat, ran into Lorne Michaels, the creator of the NBC show and his former boss when he was a writer and performer there. Mr. Michaels was chatting with Brian L. Roberts, the chief executive of Comcast, which had recently acquired NBCUniversal in a deal that Mr. Franken opposed.
I fought to prevent this! Mr. Franken blurted out to the two men.
It was a potentially awkward moment that Mr. Franken defused with the kind of blustery humor that delighted audiences during his years as an entertainer. We all had a laugh, fun was had by all, and I went on, he said in an interview.
But for Mr. Franken, antitrust issues involving big companies are no joking matter. The man who created such famous Saturday Night Live characters as the self-help guru Stuart Smalley is now a serious policy wonk and a self-made expert in antitrust matters like price-fixing and monopolization.
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Al knows what the real story is with this so called merger. Better service,better programing,and better customer service,BULLSHIT!!!!!!. Example=Minneapolis St Paul market,one cable company serving 3 million people. Right now the Metro Council is controlled by the Cable lobbyist's. Several years back the Time Warner and Comcast thieves swapped territories in order for each to have their own controlled customer base. Nothing positive ever happens with monopoly control of any business or industry. Greed is the bottom line,remember Ma Bell and Standard Oil. Again,notice how through years of lobbying,they too becoming one entity.
Archae
(46,340 posts)Seven appointments set up to come out and get hooked up for cable and internet, all seven never showed up.
And all they do is make excuses.
So my friend is saying to hell with Comcast and going satellite.
B2G
(9,766 posts)I thought the Time Warner/Comcast merger was a done deal. We've already had our channel lineup switched.
I hate cable companies with the intensity of 1000 burning suns.