NBC News plans to drop former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel less than a day following a rebellion at MSNBC, which featured a strong segment by Rachel Maddow.
Rebellion leads to NBC News dumping Ronna McDaniel
Dylan Byers of Puck News reported, “NBC NEWS intends to drop former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor after a revolt from NBC/MSNBC talent. Executives are considering the details, with an announcement pending. Meanwhile, McDaniel is seeking legal representation.”
None of this is official yet, but McDaniel is looking for a lawyer and planning to sue the network.
The on-air talent rebellion at MSNBC was historic because the most influential hosts on the network publicly informed their audience about the situation and explained why McDaniel did not belong at NBC News.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski initiated the day by declaring that McDaniel would essentially be banned from Morning Joe.
Nicolle Wallace hosted Timothy Snyder to discuss how MSNBC was appeasing a dictator by hiring McDaniel.
The main focus was Rachel Maddow, who used her entire first segment to explain why McDaniel was crucial to an authoritarian like Trump taking over the Republican Party, and how she worked to overthrow our system of government.
Maddow stated, “We are dealing with this not from William Dudley Pelley’s brown shirt militias, but from the multi-billion dollar political operation of one of the two governing parties of the United States of America. And that’s new. And with our country facing something that daunting and dangerous, I think bad decisions will inevitably happen. Mistakes will be made. But part of our resilience as a democracy is going to be recognizing, us recognizing when decisions are bad ones. And reversing those bad decisions. Listening to legitimate criticism, responding to it, and correcting course. Not digging in, not blaming others. Take a moment. Acknowledge that maybe it wasn’t the right call. It is a sign of strength, not weakness, to acknowledge when you are wrong. It is a sign of strength. And our country needs us to be strong right now.”
Video of Maddow:
Lawrence O’Donnell followed with his own history lesson and reasoning for why McDaniel could not be on the network:
Lawrence O’Donnell has epic questions for Ronna McDaniel, “My first question would be, why did you change your name for Donald Trump? Before Trump ran for president, her name was Ronna Romney McDaniel. How does that feel? To change her name to curry favor with a madman? pic.twitter.com/pJdbrbSIXS
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 26, 2024
Stephanie Ruhle closed the day by adding her support to the Never Ronna rebellion, and from then on, it was just a matter of time until NBC pulled the plug.
Ronna McDaniel Won’t Be On NBC News, But What Happens Next?
NBC News will announce that they won’t hire Ronna McDaniel, and then they will be sued by McDaniel.
Just because McDaniel won’t be on MSNBC does not mean that the threat is over. McDaniel had meetings with multiple networks, so the corporate media hasn’t learned anything. They will keep trying to hire Trump supporters who want to end our democracy.
NBC News is currently being run by executives who come from Republican-friendly big corporate outlets like Politico and The New York Times. These executives believe that America is a conservative country, and they are trained to court Trump and his party.
The other important thing to learn is that NBC News didn’t change their decision about McDaniel because of viewer anger. It took an unusual on-air rebellion to cause this change. NBC News executives didn’t pay attention to what MSNBC viewers wanted. The liberal image of the network was just a form of branding for them.
Ronna McDaniel was turned down, but as long as corporate media seeks to please Trump, there will be many more challenges for democracy and journalism in the United States.
