Tim Miller
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That's what happened.
That's the story of this guy.
It's a pretty cut and dry story.
Bari says that doesn't follow 60 Minutes standards.
She wants to hear the White House's spin.
It's unclear to me what the other side of that story is.
We felt the guy deserved it.
But anyway, what do you make of that?
Well, two things.
First of all, talk about Streisand effect.
More people are going to see that story now than if they had just aired it without further comment.
They would have aired it and people would have said, wow, that's really terrible.
And they would have moved on.
Now you're going to have millions and millions of people downloading this story because it's all over the internet, watching it and saying, why doesn't Barry Weiss want us to see this?
First of all, as Chris Hayes pointed out, has Barry Weiss ever been an investigative journalist?
I mean this is what happens when you make a political appointment.
You put somebody at the top of a news organization who really has no โ
serious experience in this, but there's a kind of a journalistic rule she invented that I find really disturbing.
If we ask the government for comment and the government refuses to comment, we can't run the story.