Comcast publicly doubts its own claim that merger won't reduce competition

A blog post by Comcast Vice President Sena Fitzmaurice repeated the company's talking point that "if the proposed transaction goes through, consumers will not lose a choice of cable companies. Consumers will not lose a choice of broadband providers. And not a single market will see a reduction in competition. Those are simply the facts." But in the original version of this blog post, that paragraph was followed by a seemingly out-of-place sentence. It said, "We are still working with a vendor to analyze the [Federal Communications Commission] spreadsheet but in case it shows that there are any consumers in census blocks that may lose a broadband choice, want to make sure these sentences are more nuanced." This seems to be an editing suggestion that was disregarded -- but not deleted until after the blog post went live.