The extremely sad state of American “journalism”

Yesterday morning when every news pimp in the United States was covering Paris Hilton’s triumphant escape from jail, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski refused multiple times to report the story. Her producer had positioned the story as the lead, and she flat out refused to talk about it. For this, I strongly applaud her. There were many way more important events to report other than some rich bitch getting released from jail, and Ms. Brzezinski’s efforts to report those stories is commendable.

The sad part about this display of rationality and strength to fight for what she thought was right is that her two male co-anchors mocked her incessantly, and didn’t lend her completely logical point any credibility at all. More often than not, when a person voices their opinion against what is obviously wrong as Ms. Brzezinski did, their peers mock them instead of supporting them.

It is truly pathetic when so called respected journalists mock their counterpart for actually reporting the real news. Or trying to anyway. Mika Brzezinski did not give up though, and other than some brief footage of Paris leaving jail, the story did not get any coverage.

See the video here:

http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=e771e428-bc1a-4ba7-8715-b871d757ccce&f=00&fg=email