Comcast Awarded the Golden Poo Award 286
ISoldat53 writes "The Consumerist has awarded Comcast the Golden Poo award for the worst company in America. From the article: 'After four rounds of bloody battle against some of the most publicly reviled businesses in America, Comcast can now run up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and hold its hands high in victory — it has bested everyone else to earn the title of Worst Company In America for 2010.'"
Surprise Surprise! (Score:4, Insightful)
Comcast is fine (Score:2, Insightful)
Comcast Here Is My List of Ideas to be better. (Score:3, Insightful)
Comcast Here Is My List of Ideas to be better.
Lower your prices not that much a but a little bit (The box rent part is the real bad part)
Don't mess up csn chicago with the nbc take over. But keep up with VS takeing our feed in the playoffs. Also can we get nhl extra in HD next year?
also open CSN / bears VOD to dish, directv , wow. rcn, and u-verse.
VS ALT HD ALL SYSTEMS
Put CSN + back on the DTA's. Why not use INFO SD mirror of INFO HD / CSN + HD and make CLTV full time?
WOW can have CSN, CSN + and CSN + 2 on analog so why not on a DTA on comcast?
Good job with letting others have CLTV
add CLTV HD or at least put in on INFO HD / CSN + HD
NEXT TIME CSN + 2 HD and not just make it sd only
Put speed in starter for the full Chicago area why is part in starter and part in sports pack?
also why is fox movie in the sports pack?
Let all other systems have the Chicago Wolves games that are cocmast only at this time.
have a guild that does not look like crap on a HD tv.
Mirror the HD channels to the same number as SD.
and one last thing LAY OFF ON THE HD compression!
Net Neutrality (Score:5, Insightful)
OK, OK... (Score:5, Insightful)
Only when the creature comforts like entertainment are affected does someone really seem to notice or care... Golden Poo Award needs to be splattered over the Consumerist's face.
Re:OK, OK... (Score:5, Insightful)
No, most Americans still rightly blame the fat cats on Wall Street for this mess. It's not as if the government was forcing banks to make bad loans, despite what certain professional liars may have told you. Sure, the government could have done more to regulate the ridiculous financial instruments invented in the last ten years or so, but obviously under Bush any kind of regulation was out of the question. Obama did carry on Bush's lame bailout policies, but he also added more oversight, despite Republicans screaming 'socialism' about the oversight but not the bailout itself. You will also note the Democrats in congress attempting to bring reform to the financial sector, but being blocked by Republicans, who are not only filibustering any bill, they are filibuster the motion to even debate the bill.
We know who to blame. This is not this government's fault. This is Wall Street's fault, and the previous administrations, and all the Republican neo-cons who have deregulated everything they could get their hands on over the past thirty years.
Re:As a former employee... (Score:3, Insightful)
i'm not disputing how evil comcast is or isn't, but why are you talking like it's some evil conspiracy for them to stop serving non-paying customers?
both dish and echostar will disconnect you. also any cell phone carrier, ISP, the electric or gas company. good luck getting groceries or clothes w/o paying for them.
Re:OK, OK... (Score:2, Insightful)
Talking points? I'm sorry, I don't do talking points. Was the phrase 'fat cats' on some kind of list you could point to as official 'talking points?'
Assign blame to the blame-worthy and we won't have a problem. Blame the wrong people, and I'll continue to correct you. If government is at all to blame, it is Bush and the Republicans, and it's only political theater if you disagree with it. The Republicans like to pretend to populism, but financial reform is a popular issue, people support it, but the Republicans can't, for two reasons: 1.) they can't let Obama have any more wins, period. The more wins he racks up, the less electable any of them are. 2.) Republicans are in the pockets of big business, that is their constituency. They will not betray them.
As for Glass-Steagall and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley repeal, lets look at the voting breakdown, shall we? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gramm-Leach-Bliley_Vote_1999.png [wikipedia.org] Yeah, what were you saying again? Just as an aside, I have to say thank you, personally, for letting me mop the floor with you in debates again and again, it really makes my day. It's almost as though you enjoy being my bitch in public.
Re:only 1/2 the answer.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Please explain how the Community Reinvestment Act [wikipedia.org] forced banks to make bad loans. Go ahead, I'll wait. See, the thing the right wing liars forget, is that all this information is out there and easily available on the Internet, so the lies are incredibly easy to refute.
The CRA does not give the government powers to force banks to make bad loans, sorry to burst your bubble.
I am here to keep you honest, too. And I'm doing a far better job of it than you are, my friend. You won't win in that regard, because you see, I already keep myself honest, while you, evidently, do not. I do not live in a right wing echo chamber where bald faced lies are amplified and repeated until the entire cult thinks that black is white.
Wall Street financial companies in general (Score:3, Insightful)
I would have thought most Wall Street companies and financial services would win the award easy. Comcast maybe the single worst company but the combined criminals at Wall Street and financial companies would be worst than Comcast by far.
Re:OK, OK... (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes, I, along with the majority of Americans, see Wall Street as the bad guys.
Re:OK, OK... (Score:3, Insightful)
The Democrats are merely influenced by the plutocrats. The Republicans are owned by them.
Re:Do they not consider DirecTV to be a company? (Score:3, Insightful)
Agreed,
I've had DirecTV since '96 ... why would ever need customer service?
(I say this in jest, but the truth is, outside of getting them to send me newer versions of boxes, and when I move ... I never have to talk to them. Because it actually works)
Re:only 1/2 the answer.... (Score:1, Insightful)
I'm sorry, but that's absolutely wrong.
There was never a law that forced any bank to give a bad loan. The reason the standards for loans kept going down and more and more obviously bad loans were given is because there was an insatiable demand for those loans on the secondary mortgage market.
The investment banks were making so much money repackaging loans that they put enormous pressure on mortgage brokers and banks to make more and more loans, and the loan officers were getting bonuses because of all the "product" being sold. Things like no income-verification loans, and totally doc-free loans, "liar" loans, etc were completely a reaction to the overheated secondary market.
Despite what you hear from right-wing media, the community reinvestment act had absolutely nothing to do with the explosion of the number of bad loans being made. The law didn't in any way say a bank had to give loans to people who couldn't repay. All the law said was that if two people had the same credit profile and assets, you couldn't deny one borrower over the other on the basis of redlining or race.
If every single sub-prime loan had failed (and they did not) it would have been little more than a blip on the economy. The total losses would have been in the tens of billions of dollars. However, when the credit-default swap bubble burst, the losses were over a trillion dollars.
There is no way to honestly claim that mortgage crash had anything at all to do with the government or the Community Reinvestment Act. It is simply not so, and the people who claim that it is are just trying to divert blame for the economic meltdown onto a president who left office 7 years before the meltdown happened.
I'm sorry I can't post this under my UID because I've already moderated in this thread. But I hear this erroneous meme repeated a lot by conservative talkers and it can easily be disproved by talking to anyone who worked in the mortgage business during the decade when the groundwork for this catastrophe was laid.
The blame for a few billions worth of bad loans causing an economic meltdown falls squarely on banks that decided that getting rich by being banks wasn't as good as getting rich by becoming investment houses. So they invented increasingly obtuse financial instruments that took the risk which is inherent in a mortgage and multiplied it by 100 times. Then, as we are now learning, once they created these instruments that were bound to fail, they bet heavily on those instruments failing, which instead of ameliorating the risk, exploded the risk across other sectors of the investment community. The people who invented these labyrinthine instruments were paid huge bonuses, which led them to come up with even more risky plays. They got way to cute, and then it all blew up.
P.R.