NBC News is dropping former RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel less than a day after a talent rebellion on MSNBC that featured a powerful Rachel Maddow segment.
Rebellion leads NBC News to dump Ronna McDaniel
Dylan Byers of Puck News posted, “NBC NEWS plans to drop former RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor following on-air revolt by NBC/MSNBC talent. Executives are deliberating on the details; announcement pending. In the meantime, McDaniel is seeking legal representation.”
None of this is official yet, but McDanuel is looking for a lawyer and plans to sue the network.
The on-air talent rebellion on MSNBC was unprecedented because the network’s most powerful hosts went public and told their audience what was happening and why McDaniel didn’t belong at NBC News.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski started the day by announcing that McDaniel would essentially be banned from Morning Joe.
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Nicolle Wallace hosted Timothy Snyder to discuss how MSNBC was appeasing a dictator by hiring McDaniel.
The focus was Rachel Maddow who used her entire first half to explain why McDaniel was essential to an authoritarian like Trump taking control of the Republican Party and how he worked to overthrow our system of government.
Maddow said: “We now face this not because of William Dudley Pelley’s Brownshirt militias, but because of the massive multi-billion dollar political operation of one of the two ruling parties of the United States of America. And this is new. And with our country dealing with something so daunting and scary and dangerous to the country, I think inevitably bad decisions will be made. Mistakes will be made. But part of our resilience as a democracy will be by recognizing, we recognize when decisions are wrong. And reverse those bad decisions. Listen to legitimate criticism, respond to it and correct course. Don’t dig, don’t blame others. Take a minute. Recognize that maybe it wasn’t the right decision. It is a sign of strength, not weakness, to recognize when you are wrong. It’s a sign of strength. And our country needs us to be strong right now.”
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Lawrence O’Donnell continued with his history lesson and reasoning as to why McDaniel couldn’t be on the net:
Lawrence O’Donnell has epic questions for Ronna McDaniel: “My first question would be: Why did you change your name to Donald Trump? Before Trump ran for president, her name was Ronna Romney McDaniel. How does it feel? Changing his name to curry favor with a madman? pic.twitter.com/pJdbrbSIXS
– Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 26, 2024
Stephanie Ruhle ended the day by adding her support to the Never Ronna rebellion and from that point on, it was only a matter of time before NBC pulled the plug.
Ronna McDaniel won’t be on NBC News, but what happens next?
NBC News will announce it won’t hire Ronna McDaniel and then get sued by McDaniel.
Just because McDaniel won’t be on MSNBC doesn’t mean the threat is over. McDaniel had meetings with multiple networks, so the corporate media learned nothing. They will continue to try to take on Trumpers who want to end our democracy.
NBC News is currently run by executives who come from large Republican news outlets like Politico and The New York Times. These leaders believe that America is a conservative country and are trained to court Trump and his party.
The other important lesson is that NBC News didn’t back down from McDaniel because of viewer outrage. It took an unprecedented on-air rebellion to bring about this change. NBC News executives didn’t care what MSNBC viewers wanted. For them, the sinister aspect of the network was nothing more than a brand.
Ronna McDaniel was rejected, but as long as the corporate media looks for ways to please Trump, there will be many more challenges to come for democracy and journalism in the United States.
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