NBC veteran Bill Arkin quits

[August]

Originally Posted by u crank

Do you suppose Morning Joe and Maddow will discuss this?

Sadly only if it can be used to slam Trump somehow.

[u crank]

Originally Posted by August

Sadly only if it can be used to slam Trump somehow.

Yea it is truly remarkable how far the MSM and especially NBC/MSNBC has fallen. When a guy who is as far to the Left as Glenn Greenwald is writing about it you know something is wrong.

That MSNBC and NBC have become Security State Central has been obvious for quite some time. The network consists of little more than former CIA, NSA, and Pentagon officials as news “analysts”; ex-Bush-Cheney national security and communications officials as hosts and commentators; and the most extremists pro-war neocons constantly bashing Trump (and critics of Democrats generally) from the right, using the Cheney-Rove playbook on which they built their careers to accuse Democratic Party critics and enemies of being insufficiently patriotic, traitors for America’s official enemies, and abandoning America’s hegemonic role in the world.

https://theintercept.com/2019/01/03/...to-stop-trump/

This is particularly damming and disturbing.

That an entire generation of Democrats paying attention to politics for the first time is being instilled with formerly right-wing Cold Warrior values of jingoism, über-patriotism, reverence for security state agencies and prosecutors, a reckless use of the “traitor” accusation to smear one’s enemies, and a belief that neoconservatives embody moral rectitude and foreign policy expertise has long been obvious and deeply disturbing. These toxins will endure far beyond Trump, particularly given the now full-scale unity between the Democratic establishment and neocons.