eric deggans, al sharpton on the verge of getting an msnbc job.st african-american with a nightly show on cable news in years and yet he's not a journalist, he's a liberal activist and candidate. >> exactly. that's what worries some black journalists. we have been pushing hard to try to have diversity, particularly in cable news prime time. we don't have a person of color hosting the show on any of the major cable channels in prime time. to have that one slot go to someone who is more of an activist and not a journalist. >> not a journalist by any stretch of the imagination. >> i also think it's a larger problem. when you see someone like eliot spitzer and he has to cover the peck dill lows of a politician caught in a sex scandal. there's a resonance there if you had someone with a straight journal iflt bach ground. >> sharpton was supposed to appear at an event but canceled because some of the members criticized the fact he was about to get the gig. what does that tell you about his attitude toward journal listic credibility? >> what we also saw