{"id":2206431,"date":"2024-03-26T11:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T15:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-real-ronna-mcdaniel-controversy-why-does-the-former-rnc-chair-want-to-join-corrupt-corporate-media\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T11:14:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T15:14:30","slug":"the-real-ronna-mcdaniel-controversy-why-does-the-former-rnc-chair-want-to-join-corrupt-corporate-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-real-ronna-mcdaniel-controversy-why-does-the-former-rnc-chair-want-to-join-corrupt-corporate-media\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Behind Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel&#8217;s Interest in Joining Corporate Media?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-real-ronna-mcdaniel-controversy-why-does-the-former-rnc-chair-want-to-join-corrupt-corporate-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2206431&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the controversy surrounding former RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel&#8217;s move to NBC News as a contributor. It\u2062 questions the \u2064motives behind such\u200d decisions and highlights issues of media bias and selective outrage. The piece sheds light on media diversity, bias, and the dynamics of\u200c political\u2062 commentator shifts within broadcast media. The article \u2062delves into the\u200c controversy surrounding ex-RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel&#8217;s transition to NBC News as a contributor. It scrutinizes \u2062the intentions\u2062 behind this\u2063 move, emphasizing media bias and selective outrage. Moreover, it explores themes of \u200bmedia diversity, bias, and\u200d the intricacies \u200dof \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-detailed-inventory-on-election-fraud-in-the-2020-election-by-deroy-murdock-provides-strong-evidence-on-president-trumps-performance-in-all-the-swing-states-and-overall-race\/\" title=\"New Detailed Inventory on Election Fraud in the 2020 Election by Deroy Murdock Provides Strong Evidence on President Trump\u2019s Performance in All the Swing States and Overall Race\">political commentator<\/a> transitions in broadcast media.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>The recent announcement that former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel will join NBC News as a contributor has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/25\/nbc-journos-melt-down-over-network-hiring-former-rnc-chair-ronna-mcdaniel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brought much controversy<\/a>, much of it misplaced. Rather than asking why NBC News decided to hire McDaniel \u2014 the question the corporate media hyperventilated about over the weekend and into Monday \u2014 people should instead ask why McDaniel wanted to join such an obviously corrupted institution.<\/p>\n<p>The media outrage demonstrates that Romney will get no respect or plaudits from the mainstream elite. So why do she and others sign contracts at places like NBC, and allow themselves to get played by a media that just wants a few \u201ctoken\u201d conservatives on the air to disguise their cultural Marxism?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-252808565\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e22560e7cce8deef5cf7365305d5c657 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e22560e7cce8deef5cf7365305d5c657\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Racist Quotas and Woke Bias<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Just over a year ago, I <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/28\/how-the-rnc-can-thwart-corporate-medias-bogus-diversity-standards-with-2024-primary-debates\/\">w<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/28\/how-the-rnc-can-thwart-corporate-medias-bogus-diversity-standards-with-2024-primary-debates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rote<\/a> that the RNC should decline to have the major networks participate in the party\u2019s debates for presidential candidates, because of their woke, and likely unconstitutional, \u201cdiversity\u201d metrics that categorize employees by gender and skin color. Among that group, NBC News seems particularly objectionable, given that Chairman Cesar Conde <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/10\/889842769\/nbcuniversal-head-explains-his-50-diversity-challenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publicly called<\/a> for a quota of making half of the division\u2019s employees nonwhite and half female.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these same media executives looking to check every racial, ethnic, and gender box care little about their employees\u2019 political bias, which <a href=\"https:\/\/update.comcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/dlm_uploads\/2022\/06\/IR-Diversity-Data-2021-06.02.22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytco.com\/company\/diversity-and-inclusion\/a-call-to-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">other<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearst.com\/documents\/33329\/890300\/2021+Diversity+%26+Inclusion+Overview.pdf\/225c9f6d-a0c5-afc6-45b6-22f01b38eab3?t=1612275543307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsleaders.org\/2019-diversity-survey-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">institutions<\/a> somehow \u201cforgot\u201d to include in their diversity reports. Instead of making an effort to hire conservatives, or at minimum ideological centrists, at every level of the organization \u2014 reporters, editors, producers, directors, and the like \u2014 the networks just pick off a few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-blasts-new-york-times-for-hate-speech-report-on-twitter\/\" title=\"Musk Blasts New York Times for Hate Speech Report on Twitter\">prominent conservative personalities<\/a> to put on camera, and trot them out to make their overwhelmingly leftist organizations appear more \u201cbalanced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a trick that raises echoes of half a century ago, when some corporate boards made mere token attempts to hire women or African Americans. The question is why the commentators in question seem so desperate for cash, attention, or \u201cmainstream\u201d credibility that they continue to engage in this charade.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Selective Outrage<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The level of amnesia on display by NBC anchor Chuck Todd in criticizing the hiring of McDaniel amazes and astounds. Todd, who himself started out interning for a Democrat, then-Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, somehow \u201cforgot\u201d all the former politcos who moved into broadcast media. (Politico\u2019s media columnist helpfully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/03\/25\/ronna-mcdaniel-firestorm-nbc-00148799\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">compiled a list<\/a>.) Several of them, including his late NBC colleague Tim Russert and ABC\u2019s George Stephanopoulos, migrated to the <em>news<\/em> side of television after having served for Democrats, as opposed to McDaniel, who will appear as a political commentator rather than in a journalism role.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c1fb70d99176f754895ede1e23f3a274 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c1fb70d99176f754895ede1e23f3a274\"><\/div>\n<p>Did Todd express outrage at any of these moves? For that matter, did he say a word when NBC News hired the sitting White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, to her current post as an MSNBC anchor?<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Psaki and her former gig, Todd on Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meet-press-march-24-2024-n1309365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accused<\/a> McDaniel of \u201cgaslighting\u201d the public during her tenure as RNC Chair. But as I <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/02\/jen-psaki-lied-to-dc-reporters-about-covid-spending-and-only-one-of-them-called-her-on-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted two years ago<\/a>, Psaki waved around a binder supposedly of Covid spending requests, claimed to the press that \u201cwe<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jen-psaki-lied-to-dc-reporters-about-covid-spending-and-only-one-of-them-called-her-on-it\/\" title=\"Jen Psaki Lied To DC Reporters About Covid Spending And Only One Of Them Called Her On It\">\u2019ll make copies<\/a> for you,\u201d and then refused to make copies for the one reporter who asked for the information, instead giving the reporter a single hour to review nearly 400 pages of documents in a conference room.<\/p>\n<p>Did Todd call out this gaslighting by Psaki \u2014 either then, or now? For that matter, has he criticized his colleague Kristen Welker, Todd\u2019s successor as host of \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/chuck-todd-will-depart-nbcs-meet-press-kristen-welker-become-host-rcna87618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House correspondent<\/a> at the time of Psaki\u2019s remarks, for Welker\u2019s own incompetence, as she failed to follow up and call out Psaki\u2019s false claims?<\/p>\n<p>And when it comes to \u201cgaslighting,\u201d has NBC News ever provided a public explanation as to why it retracted elements of a story about the attack on Paul Pelosi, other than the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/01\/08\/media\/nbc-news-reporter-miguel-almaguer-suspended-over-paul-pelosi-story-quits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">generic statement<\/a> that \u201cthe piece should not have aired because it did not meet NBC News reporting standards?\u201d If Todd wants to attack \u201cgaslighting,\u201d shouldn\u2019t he demand that his own employer provide more accountability to their audience about what exactly caused the errors in this story?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-23e3a45a65da7c17943d9275ed645b32 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-23e3a45a65da7c17943d9275ed645b32\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Corrupt Corporate Press<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I also don\u2019t recall hearing Welker, Todd, or any of the other well-compensated NBC News hosts complaining about how the network recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/03\/25\/nbc-guild-ronna-mcdaniel-hiring-00148863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">terminated several journalists<\/a>, or offering to give up some of their salaries so that NBC could hire and\/or retain more reporters. Isn\u2019t it funny how all these anchors\u2019 supposed principles about \u201csaving democracy\u201d and the vital work of the press run hollow when it could jeopardize their own beaucoup bucks?<\/p>\n<p>In that sense, perhaps Romney, who will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/03\/25\/nbc-guild-ronna-mcdaniel-hiring-00148863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> make nearly $300,000 a year on her new contract, is made for an institution like NBC. She apparently is willing to play the media game to \u201cmake coin\u201d and stay relevant, just like the self-righteousness of Todd and Welker dare not extend to criticizing anything that could jeopardize their cushy jobs. If not exactly a match made in heaven, these characters seem made for each other in a corrupt and craven town like Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-52bf5b7dffcf1d2816142a1d539a07e0 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-52bf5b7dffcf1d2816142a1d539a07e0\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news of former RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel joining NBC News as a contributor sparked controversy, largely unwarranted. Instead of focusing on NBC&#8217;s choice, let&#8217;s shift the discussion to more essential matters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":2206432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-26-at-9.52.57-AM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-26-at-9.52.57-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}