NBC News ousts Ronna McDaniel after network's anchors launch unprecedented on-air rebellion

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

NBC News on Tuesday ousted former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, just days after her hiring as a paid political analyst sparked intense backlash from the network’s top television anchors over McDaniel’s role in subverting the 2020 election and attacks on the press.

“There is no doubt that the last several days have been difficult for the News Group,” NBCUniversal News Group President Cesar Conde said in a memo to staff. “After listening to the legitimate concerns of many of you, I have decided that Ronna McDaniel will not be an NBC News contributor.”

“I want to personally apologize to our team members who felt we let them down,” Conde continued. “While this was a collective recommendation by some members of our leadership team, I approved it and take full responsibility for it.”

Ahead of the network’s decision, McDaniel spent the day Tuesday interviewing attorneys in preparation for a potential legal battle with NBC, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. Creative Artists Agency, the talent agency that brokered McDaniel’s deal with NBC, also parted ways with her, the person said.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/26/media/nbc-news-ousts-ronna-mcdaniel/index.html

[brush]

1. Oh, a double whammy...lost her job and her agent.

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Being big-lie, election denier doesn't pay. Wonder if she'll go back to using Romney in her name now that talking one for the team doesn't work?

[SouthernDem4ever]

2. Did her agreement say anything about ethics, morals or integrity

cause if it did she will have a hard time with the legal battle other than the dumbass at NBC that hired her should have known better. What were they thinking? "NEXT WE HAVE MSNBC LYING CONTRIBUTOR RONNA MCDANIEL"

[Pluvious]

3. Pariah

Persona non grata

#EverythingHeTouches

[peppertree]

8. CoRonna McDaniel

Because everyone avoids her like the plague.

[moniss]

4. I forget how to calculate how

many Scaramucci's she lasted.

[SlimJimmy]

5. Maybe they can get Cheny or Kinsinger to replace her. They're Republicans.

[FakeNoose]

6. First and foremost - she's not a journalist

What interest does NBC have in hiring someone who isn't professionally trained to report on the news of the day? Secondly after all the lies and propaganda she has barfed out, she has ZERO credibility to anyone except perhaps Q anon. Thirdly even the Chump Humpers don't like her, and Chump basically fired her so he could hire his own daughter-in-law.

If the bigshots at NBC didn't realize that McDaniel would be hated by viewers and co-workers alike, then they really have their heads up their asses. The bigger question is, how could they have made such a bone-headed decision to hire her?

[Captain Zero]

12. Trump fired her to PLANT HER AT MSNBC. Has that been considered?

It seems so illogical for msnbc to hire her, it almost seems it had to a be a setup to get her there, and right before the election season??

[hadEnuf]

7. It's amazing what "top news anchors" can accomplish when they really try.

How about insisting on reporting only the truth instead of kissing right wing corporate asses?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. When will unindicted co-conspirator #2 be indicted?

[Linda Ed]

10. Calling all lawyers

cause you know she is going to sue the pants off MSNBC it's the republican way. How she ever weaseled her way onto this station is beyond most people who watch this station every day knowing people like Rachel Maddow, Ari Melber, Lawrence O'Donnell and the rest of the journalists who contribute fair and honest information.

[SunSeeker]

11. Her baseless claim, on her 1st day on air, that the 2020 election had "problems," was alone grounds for firing her.

She used her new NBC platform to push a dangerous election lie.

Dan Rather got fired for a lot less. Dan Rather left the anchor desk in 2005 following the Killian documents controversy, in which he presented unauthenticated documents in a news report on President George W. Bush's Vietnam War–era service in the National Guard. He continued to work with CBS until 2006, when he was abruptly fired. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dan-rather-cbs-news-corporate-media_n_1531121

In September 2007, Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS and its former parent company Viacom. Rather accused the network and its ownership and management of making him a "scapegoat" in the Killian story. An intermediate New York state appeals court dismissed the lawsuit in September 2009, and the New York Court of Appeals refused to reinstate it in January 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20091002082508/http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090929/tv_nm/us_rather_cbs_1

I imagine Ronna's lawsuit would meet the same fate.

[malthaussen]

13. sic transit gloria mundi. And Tuesday's not much better. n/t

[Kennah]

14. Has NewsMax signed her yet?