<story><title>Comcast executives appear to share cozy relationships with regulators</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/jul/01/comcast-executives-share-cozy-relationships-regula/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Alex_MJ</author><text>As much as I hate Comcast and occasionally say prayers that a cement truck accidentally crashes into Tom Wheeler&amp;#x27;s house, and I&amp;#x27;d love to see a massive scandal here - these emails don&amp;#x27;t seem incriminating at all.&lt;p&gt;A high level official got invited to a party, and declined because &amp;quot;the rules folks over here tell me I can&amp;#x27;t&amp;quot;. They know each other (makes sense, they&amp;#x27;re both working at a high level in the same industry) and they have people watching their backs to make sure they don&amp;#x27;t do anything that can legally be considered corrupt (again, makes sense, shit&amp;#x27;s a minefield and an ill-defined one at that. If I were in that position I would have people keeping an eye on that whether I was corrupt or pious as a lamb)&lt;p&gt;Am I missing something? I clicked on that link salivating for the political blood of Comcast executives and all I got was a polite grownup email version of &amp;quot;sry bro can&amp;#x27;t come, rules n shyt, sounds bumpin tho&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Comcast executives appear to share cozy relationships with regulators</title><url>https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/jul/01/comcast-executives-share-cozy-relationships-regula/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jxf</author><text>A certain level of corruption is perhaps expected in any large bureaucracy. People are, after all, only human.&lt;p&gt;What really galls me, however, is the circumstances. This isn&amp;#x27;t some low-level flunky taking a bribe under the table to move things along. This is a ranking official tasked specifically with overseeing the Comcast merger work, who should have known that they&amp;#x27;d be subjected to extra scrutiny.&lt;p&gt;Also, interestingly, the FOIA response appears not to have redacted the e-mail addresses of a number of very high-ranking public officials in the FTC and FCC.</text></comment>