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Chris Jansing pledges 'the straight story' with new MSNBC anchor gig (The Hill)

Chris Jansing says she's ready to focus on the facts and “old-fashioned good news” as the new anchor of “MSNBC's Chris Jansing Reports.

We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. Because I’m hungry pretty much all the time,” Jansing said. “And there’s no substitute for being there for a big story. “I think that there’s a place for that reporting, that analysis, that opinion. “I’ve traveled literally around the world,” the senior national correspondent said. “Do people know the difference between what I do and what Symone does?

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Stop Hiring Flaks to Do the Work of Journalists (The New Republic)

MSNBC's decision to bring Jen Psaki onto its network isn't much better than CBS hiring Mick Mulvaney.

Mulvaney had held several jobs in the Trump administration—mostly as director of the Office of Management and Budget and as acting chief of staff—and did all of them with the requisite degree of cynicism and dishonesty. “A lot of the people that we’re bringing in are helping us in terms of access to that side of the equation.” “Being able to make sure that we are getting access to both sides of the aisle is a priority because we know the Republicans are going to take over, most likely, in the midterms,” Khemlani told staff of the network’s morning show, where Mulvaney had just made his inaugural appearance.

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