Memo to NBC: What the hell is wrong with you?

The actions of MSNBC’s “reporters” on this story are indefensible. Yet, they lamely try. It’s enough to make a Catholic deacon ask the title question. If you haven’t read about the “Mitt Romney is amazed by the Wawa sandwich-ordering terminal” you can read that here.

First, there was the Trayvon Martin boondoggle a few months ago.Then yesterday, evidence of some creative editing regarding Mitt Romney’s visit to a Wawa in Pennsylvania. Today, we have Andrea Mitchell’s spectacularly lame followup to “criticism of the Romney clip edit” — which amounted to Ms. Mitchell saying, with a sigh and a frown, “Oh, bother.  Fine.  Here’s what we left out.”   She failed to acknowledge what the “criticism” entailed; she neglected to point out how the editing misrepresented the event being covered; and she offered nothing resembling an apology or an admission of responsibility for something that was, as a matter of fact, irresponsible.

I’m tired.  Truly.  I’ve grown weary of trying to defend the indefensible and explain the inexplicable.  For years, people have stomped their feet and pounded their fists and snorted “Liberal media bias!” and I’ve always tut-tutted and shooshed them and said, “No, no.  Calm down.  They meant well.  It was just a misunderstanding.  A mistake.  These things happen.”  I spent over 25 years working in the oft-reviled Mainstream Media and I saw up close and personal how the sausage was made.   I knew the people who wielded the knives and wore the aprons, and could vouch most of the time, anyway for their good intentions.

But now? Forget it. I’m done.

via Memo to NBC: What the hell is wrong with you?.