Former Meet the Press host Chuck Todd lashed out at his NBC employer for hiring the recently released head of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel. Todd lambasted the network for essentially sandbagging his colleague, Kristen Welker. “You got put into an impossible situation, booking this interview, and then all of a sudden the rug was pulled out from under you, and you find out she’s being paid to show up?”Todd said Sunday to his MTP successor.“It’s unfortunate for this program, but I am glad you did the best that you could.” Morning Joe host Mika and Joe bemoaned her hiring even though they spent an entire cycle normalizing Donald Trump leading up to the 2016 presidential race. Reports show that the NBC news division is livid about her hiring.
Lost in the storm is the abandonment of ethics by NBC…
Hiring an alternative voice on the left-leaning network should be lauded; the mistake they made was hiring an admitted paid liar and possible criminal to do it. McDaniel showed her cards on her first appearance on NBC Sunday. When asked by Meet the Press host Kristen Welker why she remained silent and ostensibly backed Trump and the GOP position that the insurrectionists are being treated unfairly, she said, [as the RNC Chair, you] ‘kinda take one for the whole team, right?” Networks have traveled down this road before, chasing ratings over integrity. Another network routinely amplifies the voices of former Trump lackeys like Stephen Miller. One of the many former White House press secretaries, Sean Spicer, who tried to redeem himself into the good graces of America by dancing with the stars, had two left feet, but at least the ABC show was designed to entertain, not inform.
For the first time, Ms. McDaniel hesitantly conceded that Biden did win the election, but she made sure to use the weaselly word “irregularities” to qualify his victory. Todd’s point about McDaniel is that she is admittedly a mercenary paid to spew the company line for the RNC and NBC, which disqualifies her because she has no credibility. “There’s a reason why there’s a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this,”said Todd, observing that many of the network’s dealings with McDaniel’s RNC were met with “gaslighting” and “character assassination.” concluding, she has “credibility issues that she still has to deal with.” The words coming from Todd, who has had his journalistic chops questioned in the past, broadsided the world of journalism.
Fox, MSNBC, CNN and the three major networks have all failed us repeatedly during the Trump years. Just this morning, Donald Trump was in court again. CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins found the need to recharacterize the charges against Mr. Trump, which only helps to excuse and normalize his criminality. Like other reporters, she called it the ‘hush money case,’ or “as the Manhattan District Attorney refers to it, the election interference case,” she said. These meeker descriptions of illegality minimize the official charges from Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office of falsifying documents. Republican contributors work diligently to convince the viewers and listeners that no one cares about the charges of illegality of a lawless president who could not pass an FBI clearance.
The need to keep Mr. Trump at arm's length but within reach—by the networks was epitomized by the words of former CBS chief Les Moonves, “It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS,”said Moonves. Later, he explained his remarks as a joke, but millions of family members of dead Americans following the COVID-19 pandemic are not laughing.
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