{"id":391910,"date":"2019-01-07T07:52:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T06:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-reporter-quits-nbc-citing-networks-support-for-endless-war\/"},"modified":"2019-01-07T07:52:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T06:52:56","slug":"prison-planet-com-reporter-quits-nbc-citing-networks-support-for-endless-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-reporter-quits-nbc-citing-networks-support-for-endless-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Reporter Quits NBC Citing Network\u2019s Support For Endless War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/reporter-quits-nbc-citing-networks-support-for-endless-war-7d1ca15cd2fc\">Caitlin Johnstone<\/a><\/strong><br \/>January 4, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>A journalist with NBC has resigned from the network with a statement which highlights the immense resistance that ostensibly liberal mass media outlets have to antiwar narratives, skepticism of US military agendas, and any movement in the opposite direction of endless military expansionism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJanuary 4 is my last day at NBC News and I\u2019d like to say goodbye to my friends, hopefully not for good,\u201d begins an email titled \u2018My goodbye letter to NBC\u2019 sent to various contacts by William M Arkin, an <a href=\"https:\/\/williamaarkin.wordpress.com\/about\/\">award-winning journalist<\/a> who has been associated with the network for 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t the first time I\u2019ve left NBC, but this time the parting is more bittersweet, the world and the state of journalism in tandem crisis,\u201d the email continues. \u201cMy expertise, though seeming to be all the more central to the challenges and dangers we face, also seems to be less valued at the moment. And I find myself completely out of synch with the network, being neither a day-to-day reporter nor interested in the Trump circus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/pastebin.com\/HGfyzzJ9\">lengthy email<\/a> covers details about Arkin\u2019s relationship with NBC and its staff, his opinions about the mainstream media\u2019s refusal to adequately scrutinize and criticize the US war machine\u2019s spectacular failures in the Middle East, how he \u201cargued endlessly with MSNBC about all things national security for years\u201d, the fact that his position as a civilian military analyst was unusual and \u201cpeculiar\u201d in a media environment where that role is normally dominated by \u201cTHE GENERALS and former government officials,\u201d and how he was \u201cone of the few to report that there weren\u2019t any WMD in Iraq\u201d and remembers \u201cfondly presenting that conclusion to an incredulous NBC editorial board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA scholar at heart, I also found myself an often lone voice that was anti-nuclear and even anti-military, anti-military for me meaning&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/reporter-quits-nbc-citing-networks-support-for-endless-war.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin JohnstoneJanuary 4, 2019 A journalist with NBC has resigned from the network with a statement which highlights the immense resistance that ostensibly liberal mass media outlets have to antiwar narratives, skepticism of US military agendas, and any movement in the opposite direction of endless military expansionism. \u201cJanuary 4 is my last day at NBC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-391910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}