NBCUniversal News Group Chair Cesar Conde made the announcement.
NBC and Ronna McDaniel have severed ties following unprecedented internal backlash over the network’s decision to hire her as a political analyst, including top NBC personalities denouncing the move on-air.
“After listening to the legitimate concerns of many of you, I have decided that Ronna McDaniel will not be an NBC News contributor,” NBCUniversal News Group Chair Cesar Conde wrote in a message to employees.
NBC News announced on Friday that the network hired McDaniel, who stepped down as chair of the Republican National Committee earlier this month, as a political analyst. The hiring announcement was immediately met with internal backlash and played out on-air by several MSNBC hosts in the following days.
NBC journalists’ outrage stems from how the press has and continues to struggle over how to cover former President Donald Trump, who has taken aim at media outlets and pressured public officials to overturn the 2020 election he lost. McDaniel followed suit and echoed Trump’s claims on election fraud and critiqued the press, even referring to MSNBC reporters as “primetime propagandists” last year.
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Ronna McDaniel, NBC part ways after backlash over hiring https://t.co/1O3l6YHRUP
— POLITICO (@politico) March 26, 2024
This is the right decision presented in the wrong way in an effort to undo what was clearly the wrong decision. It begins with an excuse for making the mistake they made and then does not acknowledge or worse seem to understand why it was a mistake. https://t.co/inxRXfFhxr
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) March 26, 2024
I get some of this. Breach of contract? Sure. But who defamed her? I mean specifically: what was said about her that was defamatory? Maybe I missed it. I think NBC screwed up royally, but McDaniel is a hack who behaved horribly as a Trump enabler. https://t.co/h34MhGsjvb
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) March 26, 2024
The people who are trying to equate hiring McDaniel with hiring, say, Jen Psaki or some other former administration official are eliding the difference between people who work for politicians and spin for them and people who were trying to undermine the US constitutional order.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 27, 2024
"McDaniel expects to be fully paid out for her contract, two years at $300,000 annually … meaning that her single, not-quite-20-minute interview Sunday could cost the Peacock more than $30,000 per minute, or $500 per second" https://t.co/kqJBePRid9 @playbookdc
— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) March 27, 2024
BREAKING: The NBC executive, Jack Donaghy, that hired Ronna McDaniel, has been fired. He's a major donor to the RNC.
— Morgan J. Freeman (@mjfree) March 27, 2024
Musk's tweets are becoming indistinguishable from Trump's https://t.co/nCZUfCEgbD
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 28, 2024
People who hate the media and claim that they would never trust it sure are taking it hard that Ronna McDaniel – someone MAGA world hates anyway – isn't being welcomed to NBC.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 27, 2024
The RNC dumps her and they are <meh> "C'est la vie"
NBC dumps her and they are <outrage> "How could they"
— PoliCyn (@CynPoli) March 27, 2024
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