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NBC reverses decision to hire Ronna McDaniel after on-air backlash
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NBC employees argued publicly and privately that their complaint was not with McDaniel’s party affiliation but with her actions.
“To be clear, we believe NBC News should seek out conservative Republican voices to provide balance in their election coverage,” co-host Mika Brzezinski said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday. “But it should be conservative Republicans, not a person who used her position of power to be an anti-democracy election denier.”
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Alex Conant, a Republican strategist who worked on Marco Rubio’s 2016 president campaign, told The Post earlier this week that television producers face a challenging pundit-supply issue.
“The networks have really struggled to find Trump loyalists to consistently come on air,” he said. “To be good at it, you have to be a serious person. You can’t just be a conspiracy monger and succeed in that role. They have tried to find serious people coming out of Trumpworld and have not found a lot of appetite.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/03/26/nbc-drops-ronna-mcdaniel-backlash/
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