(“No organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned … It has become clear that this appointment undermines that goal.”)
Funny — the journalists who spoke up said McDaniel’s departure was required to
🔸preserve their journalistic mission and the network’s credibility,
🔸not out of any need for “alignment.”
We can only hope that NBC and other news organizations take away something more than “don’t hire a MAGA mouthpiece”
A few ideas:
• Create a #mission#statement that affirms your goals are telling the #truth and defending #democracy, which protects the First Amendment — not fake balance. • #Stop#pretending four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump and his movement are presenting #alternative “#policies” as a normal party would. They are fighting for an alternate system: authoritarianism. • Politicians’ outright #lies must be identified, not just labeled as their “response” or “position.” • Instead of obsessing over #polls, devote extensive coverage to #analyzing the Heritage Foundation’s “#Project2025” and Trump’s #fascist#agenda. Feature #historians and political #scientists during news segments (not only on panels) to put Trump’s views and statements in context. • #Don’t excerpt a few words from a Trump rally or speech, dub it an “argument” and #ignore his mental short-circuits and #deteriorating#intellect.
"I want to associate myself with all my colleagues both at MSNBC and at NBC News who have voiced loud and principled objections to our company putting on the payroll someone who hasn't just attacked us as journalists
“but someone who is part of an ongoing project to get rid of our system of government."
-Maddow on NBC hiring human trash fire Ronna McDaniel
But when pressed to say whether or not it was the result of #fraud, she refused to say… though she pointed to "an explosion in PA mail-in ballots in 2020 (in mid-#pandemic) vs 2016 (pre-pandemic.)
Later, she "condemned the violence of #Jan6" but never said who she blamed. #AntiFa
Thru that process #RonnaMcDaniel built a good rapport w/ #NBCNews execs Carrie Budoff Brown, snr VP of politics, & Rebecca Blumenstein, pres of editorial. McDaniel left the RNC, signed on w/ #CAA [further proving Republicans are just actors] & went looking for a TV contract.
…The #McDaniel deal was unanimously supported by leaders of all their networks, …including by …[the] president of #MSNBC.
I'm no fan of Ronna #McDaniel, but argue that of the three qualifications to be on NBC or MSNBC's air--resume, insight, and liberal outlook--she deserved a couple of weeks to show that she could deliver insight to the MAGA brain.
You don't have to agree with someone to learn from them. It was clear from McDaniel's performance on Sunday that she is unrepentant. Nevertheless, we all could have learned from her had she shared some insight. 1/2
"Amid 'a growing sense inside the Washington bureau that Comcast sees its news division, which has been subject to recent layoffs and other cuts, as a divisive nuisance to be stripped down,' there was anger not only at the hiring of McDaniel, but the $300,000 price tag."
#OliviaTroye, former member of former Vice President Mike #Pence’s staff, tweeted,
“While [#McDaniel] now states that she doesn’t condone #violence and attacks on law enforcement ... would love to hear her #explanation regarding the #fundraising text #messages she authorized that went out from the #RNC attacking the #FBI for doing their jobs. She owes the national security and law enforcement community an #apology.”
> Donald #Trump is likely to back a supporter of his false claims of election fraud, Michael Whatley, the head of the North Carolina G.O.P., to replace her.
#Trump personally pressured 2 #Republican members of the #Michigan#WayneCounty Board of Canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, acc/to recordings reviewed by The Detroit News & revealed publicly for the first time.
#McDaniel, a #Michigan native & the leader of the #Republican Party nationally, said at another point in the call, "If you can go home tonight, do not sign it. ... We will get you attorneys."
Palmer & Hartmann left the canvassers meeting w/o signing the ofcl stmnt of votes for Wayne County, & the following day, they unsuccessfully attempted to rescind their votes in favor of certification, filing #legal affidavits claiming they were pressured.
The call involving #Trump, #McDaniel, Hartmann & Palmer occurred within 30 mins of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers meeting ending on Nov. 17, 2020….
The recordings further demonstrated the direct involvement of Trump, as an incumbent president, w/ #Republican ofcls in #Michigan in a bid to undermine Biden's win & how some details of his efforts had remained secret as he launched a campaign to win back the White House in 2024.
"Georgia RICO judge signs off on DA’s subpoena request for GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to testify in upcoming trial for ‘Kraken’ lawyer Sidney Powell and ‘coup memo’ attorney Kenneth Chesebro"