Comcast Pulls Girls Camp Funding Over Twitter Quip

Douchebags . . .

It's just a bad PR move. I have no doubt that the funding may get pulled at some time in the future when this incident is off the radar.

Ok. So, would your company cut of United Way funding if a citizen who uses United Way services expressed an opinion involving your companies business practice?

They didn't express any negative view of Comcast. A person expressed some indignation about the FCC chief who presided over the decision to allow Comcast to take over NBC virtually immediately being hired by Comcast.

And that's it. Problem is, the truth hurts and Comcast is being sensitive to their obvious corruption and so they lashed out against a charitable organization.

Luckily the media got involved.

You better be prepared to pay government workers a hell of a lot more and provide full lifetime employment (regardless of workload) if you are going to take away all future work prospects.

Yes I think jumping to the company immediately after the approval looks rather stupid on both parties, but to imply that means that there was hanky panky going on is unjustified.

I don't necessarily disagree. I just think the way CC did it was a stupid way of doing things. Where I am, we are very cognizant of our image, and regardless of our ultimate actions, we stay away from anything that brings the media spotlight on us or potentially could.

Instead, CC made a fool of themselves, although they did get their point across. I suppose . . .

If I was at Comcast and making the call, I'd fire the douche who pulled the funding.

Cutting the funding is bad enough but sending them a letter and telling them you cut it because of the twitter remark? Double fail! The smart thing would have been to let sleeping dogs lie. Alternatively they could have pulled the funding and blamed it on tough economic times or some other boilerplate answer. That wouldn't have been real smart but it would have been better than this.

Can I get a job doing PR for Comcast? I have no relevant job experience or degree but I couldn't do worse than the morons currently running the operation.

However,

I do think there are laws against corruption of high leve federal civil servants.

The point still remains, why is Comcast hiring the lady who approved their deal?

Reel Grrls, the Seattle nonprofit that nearly lost its summer camp funding from Comcast because of an unflattering tweet, has decided not to accept money from the cable giant.

In a statement Friday, executive director Malory Graham said Comcast’s decision to take away funds and then to restore them after media attention raised too many concerns.

Comcast spokeswoman said Thursday afternoon that the nonprofit’s funding was not in jeopardy. “We are in the process of reaching out to ReelGrrls in Seattle and let them know the funding the organization has received from Comcast is not in jeopardy and we sincerely apologize for the unauthorized action of our employee. This is not the way Comcast behaves toward its nonprofit partners,” Sena Fitzmaurice, vice president of government communications, said in a statement.

Why didn't Comcast stand its ground on pulling the funding? Now every beneficiary of Comcast's cash will be more than happy to bite the hand that feeds them.