Aug, 2020: MSNBC Producer Quits, Calls Network 'Cancer' That’s Dividing Americans

  But this channel was regularly promoted on programs such as "Law & Order". Note this story is from August 2020 and MSNBC is still the same. TD

Jack Murphy  "A former producer for MSNBC explained why she quit her role in a scathing letter, calling the left-leaning anti-Trump TV network a “cancer” that is “stoking national division” among Americans.

"Ariana Pekary accused MSNBC of amplifying “fringe voices” while forcing “journalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis.”

"Pekary wrote on her personal website:

"July 24th was my last day at
MSNBC. I don’t know what I’m going to do next exactly but I simply couldn’t stay there anymore."

 "My colleagues are very smart people with good intentions. The problem is the job itself. It forces skilled journalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis."

"Pekary also shared quotes of what people said to her during her years while working for MSNBC before pondering the harmful effect the network is having on society." . . .

. . .  “ 'Context and factual data are often considered too cumbersome for the audience,” Pekary later added.  “There may be some truth to that (our education system really should improve the critical thinking skills of Americans) – but another hard truth is that it is the job of journalists to teach and inform, which means they might need to figure out a better way to do that." . . .

MSNBC producer resigns from network with scathing letter: They block 'diversity of thought' and 'amplify fringe voices'

Joy Reid, angry MSNBC opinionist

Bari Weiss, the former New York Times op-ed staff editor who recently resigned from the newspaper with her own letter, praised Pekary's "integrity" on social media.

 Snopes grudgingly agreed    . . . "But it’s misleading to state that Pekary’s letter was directed solely at the liberal MSNBC, because Pekary’s critique was aimed at the entirety of the commercial news industry, which she said offers viewers ideological bias-confirming sensationalism over informative and nuanced reporting." . . .

National Review: A Brutal Assessment of Cable News . . . "I hope somebody in the cable-news world heeds Pekary’s assessment — which sure looks accurate to me — and is willing to try something different in another time slot, perhaps with Pekary or someone like her calling the shots of how the news ought to be covered. Just try covering the news with depth and nuance and take a shot at leaving viewers knowing more than before they tuned in. Who knows, some people might like it, particularly people who don’t watch cable news right now, because they find it a predictable shout-fest." . . .