The NBC fiasco where they hired and then almost immediately fired Ronna McDaniel shows the collapse of news in journalism. Whining MSNBC host Maddow is a prime example of the problems.
The word broke on March 26 that NBC News was reversing its decision to hire former Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel as a political commentator. MSNBC hosts across the schedule broke out into frenzied denunciations of whichever executive who thought that McDaniel should be paid to speak anywhere on this hypnotically/robotically anti-Trump network.
In one of her typical half-hour jeremiads, Rachel Maddow compared McDaniel to a mobster and a pickpocket. « You wouldn’t – you wouldn’t hire a wise guy, you wouldn’t hire a made man, like a mobster, to work at a DA’s office, right? You wouldn’t hire a pickpocket to work as a TSA screener. And so, I find the decision to put her on the payroll inexplicable. And I hope they will reverse their decision. »
There was no need for NBC News to hire McDaniel. One can look at the election results during her tenure at the RNC and question her expertise at winning elections.
