“It’s a totally amicable departure,” he said. “I had a good ride at NBC, and I’m proud of a lot of what I was able to do there. But it was increasingly clear they were moving in directions in which there were going to be fewer opportunities for my work.”
Michael Isikoff was the first journalist to find out about then president Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinski. Newsweek, the shop Isikoff worked for at the time, spiked it, they pulled the story.
Matt Drudge wound up with the scoop and the rest is, as they say, history.
I believe that incident, that open defiance of the code to first inform the American public, despite of who is in power, spelled the beginning of the end for the Main Stream Media monopoly on what is considered newsworthy. Their bias was revealed for everyone to see.
People now can choose where to get their information. #BundyRanch is but the latest example.
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Monday, April 14, 2014
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