And when they’re hurt, they punish teenage girls by shutting down their summer camp:
For Reel Grrls, the problems began May 12, with a 98-character message on Twitter.
After Baker announced her job change, a Reel Grrls employee wrote: “OMG! @FCC Commissioner Baker voted 2 approve Comcast/NBC merger & is now lving FCC for A JOB AT COMCAST?!?”
Turns out that a Comcast executive in charge of sponsoring the Reel Grrls summer program was reading and wasn’t pleased. Last Friday, Comcast Vice President Steve Kipp wrote Reel Grrls an e-mail with a link to the tweet, saying the cable giant wouldn’t contribute the $18,000 it had promised for the film camp.
“I am frankly shocked that your organization is slamming us on Twitter,” Kipp wrote. The tweet “has put me in an indefensible position with my bosses. I cannot continue to ask them to approve funding for Reel Grrls, knowing that the digital footprint your organization has created about Comcast is a negative one.”
Steve Kipp needs to learn that the “digital footprint” that’s negative about Comcast’s decision to hire one of the FCC board members who approved their NBC merger is called “the Internet”.