Ronna McDaniel, NBC? Really? Are you okay? As much as mainstream media talks about Trump’s election lies, I can’t believe they want to add his his “partner in coup” to the Politics team. I honestly feel like I woke up from my nap this afternoon and found that I had traveled to Earth 2 in my sleep. This is only going to further erode what little trust Americans have in corporate media. Here is the story from Mother Jones.
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On Friday, NBC News announced the newest hire to its politics team—former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, who stepped down from her old post earlier this month so that former President Donald Trump could install a new leadership team that includes his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.
In a memo announcing the move, according to the New York Times, NBC News senior vice president of politics Carrie Budoff Brown said, “It couldn’t be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna’s on the team.”
Well, I don’t know—is it really?
While ex-strategists or party chairs ending up with TV deals is hardly unprecedented, Trump’s attacks on the media don’t have a parallel in modern US politics. He has called the press the “enemy of the people” and accused them of “treason.” A close ally has already signaled that Trump would use the powers of his office to crack down on critical outlets, if he wins a second term. Spending seven years running interference for a fascistic fraudster who holds the First Amendment in roughly the same terminal contempt with which he regards women and low-flow toilets is not the kind of thing that should qualify you for a new career in journalism.
