{"id":1223909,"date":"2022-01-19T08:08:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T13:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1223909"},"modified":"2022-01-19T08:08:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T13:08:47","slug":"veteran-msnbc-anchor-leaves-hyper-partisan-news-environment-to-go-to-local-news-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/veteran-msnbc-anchor-leaves-hyper-partisan-news-environment-to-go-to-local-news-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran MSNBC Anchor Leaves \u2018Hyper-Partisan\u2019 News Environment To Go To Local News Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fveteran-msnbc-anchor-leaves-hyper-partisan-news-environment-to-go-to-local-news-station%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1223909&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>MSNBC anchor Kendis Gibson is leaving the far-left network for a local news station, CBS\u2019 Miami station, because he no longer wanted to be part of a \u201chyper-partisan\u201d news environment.<\/p>\n<p>Variety <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/tv\/news\/kendis-gibson-msnbc-cbs-miami-anchor-1235155928\/?dg\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The move shows ViacomCBS bringing in new local staffers under Wendy McMahon, co-president of the company\u2019s news and stations unit, and Gibson says he welcomed the chance to take on a wider range of reporting than he was able to do at MSNBC, where he was anchoring early mornings on weekends.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to get away from working in the hyper-partisan 24\/7 political news space,\u201d Gibson said. \u201cThis is a good chance to anchor a newscast that covers the full gamut of the news cycle which I love, including world news, entertainment news, human interest stories and stories important to local communities \u2014 and in an awesome city with a big commitment to local news from the top down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/msnbc-producer-quits-this-cancer-stokes-national-division-facts-too-cumbersome-for-audience\">reported<\/a> on a former MSNBC producer who wrote an open letter back in August 2020 explaining why she left the network the previous week, saying that they are a \u201ccancer\u201d that is \u201cstoking national division\u201d by amplifying \u201cfringe voices\u201d and forcing \u201cjournalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter was written by Ariana Pekary, whom Fox News&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/msnbc-producer-ariana-pekary-letter\">noted<\/a> described herself as an \u201cintegral member\u201d of MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe Last Word with Lawrence O\u2019Donnell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pekary began her letter by sharing quotes of what people said to her over the last couple of years as she pondered leaving the network due to the detrimental effect that it is having on society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJuly 24th was my last day at MSNBC. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do next exactly but I simply couldn\u2019t stay there anymore,\u201d Pekary wrote. \u201cMy 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pekary said that at MSNBC it was \u201cpractically baked in to the editorial process\u201d that decisions on what and who give coverage to were based on what would generate the most ratings for the network. She said that behind closed doors \u201cindustry leaders will admit the damage that\u2019s being done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A high profile TV veteran reportedly told her, \u201cWe are a cancer and there is no cure. But if you could find a cure, it would change the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs it is, this cancer stokes national division, even in the middle of a civil rights crisis,\u201d Pekary said. \u201cThe model blocks diversity of thought and content because the networks have incentive to amplify fringe voices and events, at the expense of others\u2026 all because it pumps up the ratings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContext and factual data are often considered too cumbersome for the audience,\u201d Pekary later added. \u201cThere may be some truth to that (our education system really should improve the critical thinking skills of Americans) \u2013 but another hard truth is that it is the job of journalists to teach and inform, which means they might need to figure out a better way to do that. They could contemplate more creative methods for captivating an audience. Just about anything would improve the current process, which can be pretty rudimentary (think basing today\u2019s content on whatever rated well yesterday, or look to see what\u2019s trending online today).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pekary said that she had heard colleagues \u201cdeny their role as journalists,\u201d and claimed that a \u201csenior producer\u201d told her,&nbsp;\u201cOur viewers don\u2019t really consider us the news. They come to us for comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC anchor Kendis Gibson is leaving the far-left network for a local news station, CBS\u2019 Miami station, because he no longer wanted to be part of a \u201chyper-partisan\u201d news environment. Variety reported: The move shows ViacomCBS bringing in new local staffers under Wendy McMahon, co-president of the company\u2019s news and stations unit, and Gibson says &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}