Thursday, June 02, 2016

The Document That Ate American Journalism



Let's say you're an MSNBC employee who happens into the wrong room at the wrong time and discovers that Joe Scarborough and Phil Griffin are both Red Lectroids from the 8th dimension who landed at Grover's Mill, New Jersey in 1938 on a mission to destroy America.

Evil, pure and simple.


So what are your options?

Well you could shut up, close the door, keep your silence, pretend it never happened and be rewarded by the Lectroids for your service.

Or you could resign on principle, make it known why you resigned, never work in that industry again in any capacity and go back to providing for your family as your ancestors did: by gather berries and hunting for squirrels with a rock.

Or you could let the Lectroids buy your silence, sign a non-disclosure agreement, quietly resign and go across the street to, say, ABC, doing more-or-less what you used to do.  Where -- surprise! -- one day, you wander into the wrong room at the wrong time and discover that George Stephanopoulos and Bill Kristol  are also Red Lectroids from the 8th dimension who landed at Grover's Mill in 1938 on a mission to destroy America.

Evil, pure and simple.


So what are your options?

Well...

This why the reasons behind, say, ABC's Jonathan Greenberger hiring "brilliant and original thinker" Bill Kristol long after Kristol's credibility had been publicly shredded will never be known.

Because snitches get stitches.

And Quislings get riches.

5 comments:

Steven Dorst said...

I wonder if this type of document is why we haven't heard anything from Chris Hayes or Rachel Maddow about the tragic direction MSNBC is moving.

Likely so. And I say that because I recall (but can't find) a story about Mellisa Harris-Perry that referenced her NOT having an NDA, thus allowing her to speak out.

bowtiejack said...

There are no Edward Snowdens in the modern media. [And isn't he object lesson #1?]

steeve said...

"Or you could resign on principle, make it known why you resigned," live for decades on the huge salary you've amassed, and trivially find a job in new media that pays more than enough to live on anyway.

The Maddows of the world have no excuse at all.

Fritz Strand said...

I've reached the point were I have to break even from Maddow. I get it that the walls are closing in on her and that her approved 'discourse space' is becoming narrower and narrower. I have absolutely no interesting in some local story about a governor having phone sex.

RUKidding said...

I lost faith in Rachel Maddow a long time ago. I get it that the money's good, but selling out totally? Gimme a break. There are other jobs out there. No point in listening to her now. She's tainted goods imo.