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.