MSNBC president Phil Griffin shocked the media elite by telling Eric Deggans of the Tampa Bay Times that you don’t need to build a career in journalism to star at MSNBC. “I’m sorry, I don’t care about journalists. … I want fair-minded, smart people who understand the world and can interpret it,” he said. “If they’re journalists, great. This notion that you somehow you have to have done something to earn so-called journalists’ credentials? Stop.” They seemed to miss the hilarious part of that passage. That MSNBC has been looking for “fair-minded smart people” and then they hired Al Sharpton. This tells aspiring black journalists to forget the newspaper jobs. Go out and falsely accuse white people of raping black kids. That’s apparently the fast track to hosting an MSNBC show. (Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org …