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Showing Original Post only (View all)Crisis at NBC News: Steve Schmidt [View all]
https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/crisis-at-nbc-news'Soon, every detail around what happened inside the executive suites at NBC/MSNBC around the hiring, backlash and disappearance of Ronna McDaniel from MSNBC before she could tell her first lie, will be known...Agents, anchors and reporters will work their iPhones, texting and spinning their version of the moment they found out credibility didnt matter to the executives.
There comes a moment when something terrible is going to happen. It will shock our conscience and hearts. Perhaps it will terrify us, and maybe people will lie about the matter to seek advantage in a way that could hurt all of us. Maybe, just maybe, there will be an hour of grave danger during which a terrible menace bears down on democracy. Imagine a lawless president who tries to intimidate the media, or shut down a broadcast network. That could never ever happen in America, right? It is as crazy as a president triggering an insurrection, or inciting violence, or calling for a campaign of revenge. Nothing like that could ever happen because in the United States the news would tell us, right?..
Lester Holt matters in America, and so does Savannah Guthrie, because they have over many long years established the credibility necessary to lead global news coverage from a desk in New York City to tell the American people what is happening upon the occasion of the darkest hours. It is a great responsibility and a profound public trust. This is why the vapid, dishonest disgrace that dared say the following on Meet the Press as an NBC News employee, responding to why she stayed silent and indifferent as the chairwoman of the third oldest political party in the world when Trump promised to release scores of violent felons who staged a coup: When you are the RNC chair, sometimes you have to take one for the whole team, right?
McDaniel should never appear on television with a serious NBC journalist as a colleague...Yet, the mix of stupidity, cynicism and incompetence that led to the hiring, and Jones ability and agility to scramble away from it has left NBC News holding a giant steaming pile of, well Heads will roll, as they say."
My words: I did my best to print the gems, but read the entire piece, folks. It's worth it. Note: Bold is mine.
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These, and other, means for factual dissemination will thrive so long as there is viability nurtured by need.
jaxexpat
Mar 25
#25
Her hiring shows just how much mainstream media is in the bag for Republicans.
Lonestarblue
Mar 24
#2
Maybe NBC hired her to dish dirt on Trump after everything he did to get her fired at the RNC.
sop
Mar 25
#26
Well she wasn't on with a serious journalist, she was on with Kristen Welker and it was made obvious today
Bev54
Mar 24
#5
Yes NBC picked her to take over from Todd. There is something seriously wrong with the executive
Bev54
Mar 24
#20
Yes. I'm guessing that Ronna will make Keith's "Worst Persons in the World".
SupportSanity
Mar 24
#19
Vox, Mother Jones, The Atlantic, and The Guardian are not Nazi Broadcasting Corp.
Hermit-The-Prog
Mar 24
#7
I haven't gone there since they raised the price of a Bag to $5 from $4. It sure as Hell wasn't 20% better
ArkansasDemocrat1
Mar 25
#33
First thing I noticed when I opened the link - the reminder of the "getting myself camera-ready" thing.
calimary
Mar 24
#16
And her presence on the network will probably encourage more Republicans to come on
calimary
Mar 24
#23