• What Bias? FCC Commissioner Leaving To Become Comcast Exec

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    Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

    Now, let’s be charitable here and admit that it’s natural for people to perform similar duties in business as they might have in government, and vice versa. It’s called job experience. But honestly now. Voting in favor of the Comcast-NBC Universal merger and then leaving to join that company five months later? You’re joking, right?

    Other, more important people than me will be objecting to this, I’m sure, but I just wanted to put down for the record here how incredibly inappropriate this obviously is.

    Funnily enough, she criticized the merger process as taking too long. I wonder why!