Vanity Fair is reporting that Senior Vice President, Politics at NBC Carrie Budoff Brown was the genius who hired Ronna McDaniel. Or to be precise, she’s the one who sent out the internal memo at NBC announcing McDaniel’s hiring at NBC.
In a memo announcing McDaniel’s hiring, Carrie Budoff Brown, who leads NBC’s elections reporting, wrote that “it couldn’t be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna’s on the team,” and referenced McDaniel’s leadership of the GOP “through some of the most turbulent and challenging moments in political history.”
However, a number of others at MSNBC noticed that McDaniel is a party to all of that turbulence and challenges we are facing in our political history. According to Brown, McDaniel will be involved in all platforms at NBC. Unfortunately for McDaniel, MSNBC’s President Rashida Jones said, “Uh NO WAY!”
Just days after NBC News announced it was hiring Ronna McDaniel as a political analyst, MSNBC’s President, Rashida Jones, told employees that the former Republican National Committee chairwoman won’t be contributing on air to the cable network, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
All this “senior vice president” and “president” stuff in corporate America always confuses me. According to the same article, Kristen Welker’s -ahem- interview of McDaniel was scheduled before she was hired, and Welker went out of her way to tell Vanity Fair that she had nothing to do with hiring McDaniel.
I’m serious.
You know this choice sucks because Chuck “bothsiderist and gotta love Republicans on my old show” Todd was out torching the hiring of McDaniel for the obvious reason — she’s a liar who was involved with the Jan 6th insurrection.
Anyway, I’m a big believer that those with media power who make these “Fuck You!” decisions to their viewers should be named. And I want to thank Vanity Fair for bringing Carrie Budoff Brown to my attention. Thanks!
This should be her email address: carrie.budoff@nbcuni.com