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Comcast Pulls $18,000 Donation Over Tweet About FCC Commissioner Turned Kabletown Flunky

Comcast Pulls $18,000 Donation Over Tweet About FCC Commissioner Turned Kabletown Flunky

By Chris Morran May 20, 2011

Comcast is apparently very unhappy with the fact that it was eliminated in the Final Four of this year’s Worst Company in America contest. First, it goes and makes the ethically questionable move of hiring a still-active FCC commissioner, and now comes a report that the Kabletown Krew have pulled $18,000 in funding to a non-profit organization all because of a Tweet about that commissioner’s hiring. [More]

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