Dafna was advocating for me to not do something on behalf of a political party.

Hmmm, that's interesting. It is a widely assumed truth on the right that the mainstream media in general, and MSNBC in particular, are in bed with the Democratic Party. There is a marginal difference between being in bed with and aligned with. I think it is indisputably obvious that MSNBC and the Democratic Party share many similar or even identical goals. However, it is logically possible that they are not coordinating with the Democratic Party, that it just appears so because they share similar goals and they tolerate similar behaviors.

There are reasons to believe that they are in bed with the party based on the JournoList scandal from a few years ago when it was revealed that several hundred mainstream media journalists were coordinating with one another to advance the interests of the DNC. Did the mainstream journalists see the ethical light and mend their ways or have they simply gotten that much better at hiding the fact they are "DNC members with bylines?"

Apparently we have an answer. Possibly the answer. It appears that at least MSNBC is indeed a member of the DNC based on this rather startling reporting.

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

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The political editor for NBC and MSNBC called a rival journalist to try and squash a scoop through brow-beating, intimidation and threats. The problem was that she was calling on behalf of the DNC because the scoop would be embarrassing and inconvenient for the DNC. A mainstream journalist! The claim that MSM journalists are simply DNC members with bylines has always been a bit tongue-in-cheek but, at least in this instance, it sounds like it actually might be true.

Kudos to Yashar Ali for having the courage to reveal gross journalistic malpractice.