I’m sure Joe and Mika knew... but some ethical journalist at that network just found out... What’s amazing about this story is that there’s at least one ethical journalists at MSNBC. I would have bet against it...
Not ethics so much as public relations. They thought it looked bad. If the story hadn’t reached the public, but those at the network knew, would he really have been let go?
“find a dog who’ll eat a dog.” — Caligula (character), “I, Claudius”