At one time in the not too distant past liberal media hacks pretended they were nonpartisan, individual thinkers and not Democrat party operatives.
Today, they don’t give a sh*t.
In the 2016 election cycle liberal journalists were meeting secretly and dining with spooky John Podesta and Hillary Clinton operatives.
They had to discuss strategy.
Now, MSNBC political editors are harassing and bullying reporters on behalf of the DNC.
Reporter Yashar Ali, from HuffPo and New York Magazine, tweeted out today on how MSNBC politics managing editor was calling to harass him on behalf of the DNC.
1. 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.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 29, 2019
Yashar Ali, who is also a member of the liberal club, added this: 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.
Dafna Linzer via Twitter
3. Yesterday morning I received a tip from a trusted source. The source told me the DNC would be announcing the dates of the first 2020 primary debates later that day. The source gave me the dates they would be announcing: June 26 and 27.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 29, 2019
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1111678825295810560
7. For another hour so they could go through their important notification calls to the state parties. I told them I couldn't wait as the news would leak and leave me without a story. That's all I can say about the call. Two minutes later I received a call from Dafna.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 29, 2019
9. So when I saw Dafna calling I assumed she would ask me to consider delaying my post so that MSNBC could announce it first. Given that this was an innocuous scoop and not some investigative story I wouldn't have lost sleep if I had delayed. But that's not why she was calling.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 29, 2019
11. She asked if I could hold the story and I said I couldn't. She was agitated, "why not?" I said I'm not going to lose a scoop. Then she got angrier and said "Why not? It's not a big deal, let them make a few phone calls."
My jaw dropped.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 29, 2019
13. I thought to myself "this is how people think it works." It's not. But Dafna was doing it. She kept pressing me. Now I acknowledged, for stuff that isn't about serious investigative reporting, there is no problem holding something. But I knew once others got the call
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 29, 2019
15. I couldn't believe what she was saying. Again, it was fine for me to print the story an hour later, beat her own network by three hours, she just wanted me to let the DNC inform state party leaders. Why the hell did she care?
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 29, 2019
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1111678831436292096
19. I'm not one of those gotcha reporters, I think it's bad for sourcing relationships to make people like they constantly feel like they have to say "off record." But Dafna isn't a source and she was calling to intimidate me, so she doesn't get the benefit.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 29, 2019
21. I said "no, I want to go talk to my editor." Then she sent me over the edge and said "What's your editors name, I want to talk to them." She was trying to intimidate me..on behalf of the DNC. I ended the call.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 29, 2019
24. There are plenty of times reporters will introduce people in politics to other reporters or TV people. I have done it many times, that is advocating for more coverage, not less. Dafna was advocating for me to not do something on behalf of a political party.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 29, 2019
