Headline Roundup • August 5th, 2020
Former MSNBC Producer Says Cable News 'Blocks Diversity of Thought' In Resignation Letter
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MSNBC producer Ariana Pekary blasted the network as a “cancer” in an open letter explaining her reasoning for quitting, the New York Post reports.
In her resignation letter “Personal news: why I’m now leaving MSNBC” posted on her personal website, she slams her former employer for letting ratings control content and accuses the network of blocking “diversity of thought.”
“This cancer risks human lives, even in the middle of a pandemic,” she wrote of MSNBC.
Pekary worked on “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” She joined the MSNBC team seven...
An MSNBC producer released a scathing open letter after quitting her job — accusing the network of becoming a “cancer” that “blocks diversity of thought” and “amplifies fringe voices.”
Ariana Pekary, who worked on “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” shared the letter on her personal site Monday, accusing the network of letting ratings dictate content.
“This cancer risks human lives, even in the middle of a pandemic,” she wrote.
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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