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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMSNBC cuts ties with Sam Seder after giving in to "alt-right" smear campaign
From the AV Club:In a year that has already seen it come under fire for passing on Ronan Farrows domino-tumbling expose of Harvey Weinstein, as well as for letting Matt Lauer run rampant across decades of pay raises, NBC is at last taking a principled stand against media figures who propagate sexual assaultand naturally, completely bungling that as well. As The Wrap reports, MSNBC has just cut ties with contributor Sam Seder over a tweet he wrote in 2009, a joke that sarcastically mocked Hollywoods continued defense of director Roman Polanski on artistic grounds. Dont care re Polanski, but I hope if my daughter is ever raped it is by an older truly talented man w/a great sense of mise en scene, that tweet read, a response written to the petition urging Polanskis release from a brief arrest in Switzerland, largely because he is one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers. Because of this eight-year-old dig at the film industrys moralsand the fact that internally there was disgust over the tweet, as a source tells The WrapSeders contract with the network will not be renewed.
This joke was resurfaced to public attention last month by Mike Cernovich, the human TRIGGERED? meme who remains at the forefront of todays white-dudes-ranting-into-webcams media, largely thanks to his successful propagating of conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and incitement of harassment campaigns against the journalists he and his army of angry internet boys dont like. Cernovich, by the way, rose to his Reddit prominence largely on the back of statements like Date rape does not existan actual, non-sarcastic idea about rape that paralleled Cernovichs own, actual rape and battery arrests, and have regularly featured into his fucked-up musings about how he loves to choke a bitch and blow the bitch out. Ironically, when confronted with them, Cernovich has defended his statementsalong with those propagating white nationalismby saying they were obvious satire that had been misinterpreted in bad faith.
Link to tweet
In a recent edition of Seders podcast, The Majority Report With Sam Seder, he described how Cernovich and slightly higher-placed trolls such as Sebastian Gorka were using the unearthed tweetwhich Seder had deleted after they began retweeting itto concoct a smear campaign against him based on willful misinterpretation, hoping to silence his criticisms of Roy Mooreone of the only actual pedophiles Cernovich has ever come into contact with, when he offered him his endorsement.
MSNBC has now fully bought into that smear campaign, siding with Cernovich, Gorka, and the rest of the alt-right whose openly stated goal is the destruction of news outlets just like it through the use of blatantly manipulative trolling techniques that use their own propensity for faux outrage against themexactly like what happened here. Great work, everyone.
https://www.avclub.com/msnbc-cuts-ties-with-sam-seder-after-giving-in-to-alt-1820993790
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MSNBC cuts ties with Sam Seder after giving in to "alt-right" smear campaign (Original Post)
Adenoid_Hynkel
Dec 2017
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greeny2323
(590 posts)1. Yes, it is disgusting and revolting.
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NBC-- who killed Ronan Farrow's story on Harvey Weinstein, covered for Matt Lauer for years, and made Trump a star-- is throwing Sam Seder under the bus because the Pizzagate guy who thinks date rape doesn't exist slandered him.
bagimin
(1,333 posts)2. Give in to the neo nazis
and fire a sarcastic Jewish dude..........we are in the f'n upside down..I love Sam.