Posted on 03/29/2019 1:33:32 PM PDT by blam
A reporter is accusing the managing editor of NBC News and MSNBC’s political coverage of trying to "intimidate” him into spiking a story about the Democratic National Committee in a chilling phone conversation that he says had her acting as a political operative and not a fellow journalist.
Yashar Ali, a high-profile freelance journalist whose work has appeared in the Huffington Post and New York magazine, said he was so taken aback by his conversation with Dafna Linzer, who has held the key NBC position since October 2015, that he posted his synopsis of it in a series of tweets Friday. Linzer, he said, was trying to block him from publishing the dates of the 2020 Democratic Party primary debates - a move Ali suspects was made to benefit the DNC, not her employers.
“Yesterday, I received a call from @DafnaLinzer who serves as managing editor of NBC/MSNBC politics. Dafna's conduct during the call was highly inappropriate and unethical. So what was the purpose of her call? She called me to bully me on behalf of the DNC,” the first tweet read.
“Dafna, who oversees the political coverage for NBC and MSNBC, was calling to bully me into delaying the publication of an innocuous scoop and at no point did she advocate for her network, it was only about the DNC
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It's funny, someone thinks I'll be surprised at this news, ha.)
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Rut-Rhow. Someone’s out of step.
I just read this guys thread over at Twitchy.
Removes any doubt that NBC News is directly colluding with the DNC and doing their bidding
Giant image of the Tweet string
Sara Carter and Brit Hume Twitter on the above.
Mouths that had been stopped for the past two years are now opening.
I’ve been saying for years that the mainstream media is the propaganda wing of the Dems. This just proves it.
Why wouldn’t an editor just refuse to run the piece?
And the rest of the enemedia.
It was considered necessary to make a point in a more forceful manner.
became a naturalized U.S. citizen in January 2011.[1] Linzer has noted a number of accepted answers to the U.S. citizenship test are erroneous or incomplete.[1]
References
Dafna Linzer, How I Passed My U.S. Citizenship Test: By Keeping the Right Answers to Myself How I Passed My U.S. Citizenship Test: By Keeping the Right Answers to Myself,
It’s not called MSDNC for NOTHING!
I didn’t find her asking him to delay was “intimidating”. Unethical maybe, but how was it intimidating?
Looks like the editor over-made her point.
"Imagine you spent two years completely screwing up at your job, I mean not merely getting every single thing wrong but loudly, proudly getting in everyone else’s face about how right you are. You’d get fired, terminated, 86’d, and Schiff-canned. But not the mainstream media. The media hacks failed for two years-plus, nonstop and without equivocation, but are they ever going to be held to account? No, they’re just going to gather in a big circle and Pulitzer each other."
I think this happens all the time. It’s just that it almost always works - the reporter bows to his/her Rat overlords.
What is a DAFNA?
When the Left’s talking points, concerns, taglines, etc. frequently seem to be uniformly applied at ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN... what else are we to expect.
Mark Levin recently played major network talking heads magically all using the same language recently. It’s really quite chilling.
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