The FCC’s Thanksgiving homework: Decide how to slaughter the Comcast-TWC merger turkey

Longtime readers know that I’ve been very critical of both Comcast and Time Warner Cable over their pricing policies, their service quality and their overall business practices. This is why I gasped in horror when I learned Friday morning that Comcast is talking with the Federal Communications Commission about what regulatory hurdles it needs to cross to merge with Time Warner Cable. The thought of the two largest cable companies in the United States merging reminds me of one of those old Marvel-DC crossover series where Lex Luthor and Dr. Doom somehow found a way to hop into one another’s dimensions to work together on a brutally powerful doomsday device capable of destroying the world or, in this case, to

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