Hollywood Reporter: In February, as Comcast was in the midst of attempting to get regulatory approval of its now-aborted acquisition of Time Warner Cable, the media giant was hit with a $20 billion racial discrimination lawsuit that alleged it discriminated against black-owned media and that various African-American advocacy groups and MSNBC host Al Sharpton had been bought off. “Their theory is as preposterous as it is offensive,” states a memorandum filed in support of dismissing the lawsuit.