Los Angeles Times:

Cable giant Comcast Corp. has hired Federal Communications Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker as senior vice president of government affairs for its NBCUniversal unit.
Baker, who will resign from the FCC, is the latest hire for Comcast, which has been beefing up its already formidible lobbying team since taking over NBCUniversal. Earlier this year, Comcast wooed National Cable & Telecommunications Assn. President Kyle McSlarrow away from the association to be president of Comcast/NBCUniversal Washington.
“Commissioner Baker is one of the nation’s leading authorities on communications policy and we’re thrilled she’s agreed to head the government relations operations for NBCUniversal,” McSlarrow said in a statement.
A Republican who served as a commissioner for a little less than two years, Baker’s hire so soon after voting in favor of Comcast’s deal to acquire majority control of NBCUniversal from General Electric Co. raised eyebrows among some media watchdogs.
“This is just the latest — though perhaps most blatant — example of a so-called public servant cashing in at a company she is supposed to be regulating,” said Craig Aaron, president and chief executive of Free Press, a nonprofit media reform organization.

Shocking news, I know. But let’s see how MSNBC and Keith Olbermann react to it. Because, you see, Comcast is an investor in Olbermann’s new network, Current TV:

Current Media founders Al Gore, the former U.S. vice president, and Joel Hyatt — founder of Hyatt Legal Services — are majority owners of Current Media, according to the IPO filings. Ron Burkle’s investment firm, cable operator Comcast and satellite-TV company DirecTV also were also listed as significant stockholders in the company.

Updates to follow, if anyone opens their mouth.