MSNBC producer pens open letter on why she quit: Trump-obsessed network puts politics before science

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MSNBC producer pens open letter on why she quit: Trump-obsessed network puts politics before science, stokes racial division
August 4, 2020 | Tom Tillison

Citing the “ratings scheme” and an obsession with Trump, among other things, an MSNBC producer who recently resigned from the network, penned an open letter on her personal website explaining her reasoning.

“July 24th was my last day at MSNBC. I don’t know what I’m going to do next exactly but I simply couldn’t stay there anymore,” Ariana Pekary wrote. “My colleagues are very smart people with good intentions. The problem is the job itself. It forces skilled journalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis.”

Citing her background in public radio, Pekary said she had not encountered decisions being predicated on how a topic or guest would rate before joining the network — she was a member of the MSNBC show “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.”

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The Producer who quit has no problems politicizing the News (or she would not be working at MSNBC in the first place), she just disagrees with the specific politics at play right now.