Ariana Pekary: MSNBC Producer Quits, Calling Cable News a ‘Cancer’
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ed an open letter that decried cable news in general as a “cancer” that “risks human lives.”
Pekary’s letter went viral Monday night, August 3, when she posted it publicly. In it, she said she had wanted to quit working at MSNBC for at least two years but was advised to “stick it out” until a number of different benchmarks. It took the coronavirus pandemic and the media’s involvement in it to inspire her to quit on July 24, she said.
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