How loopholes turned Dish Network into a ‘very small business’

Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, February 24, 2015

At this point you may be scratching your head. How can Dish, a company with a $34 billion market value, be a “very small business”? … Through sleight of hand and aggressive use of partners and loopholes, Dish turned itself into that very small business, distorting reality and creating an unfair advantage.