NBC Execs Reportedly Conspired With Ronna McDaniel Against Their Own Journalists

NBC News executives reportedly conspired with Ronna McDaniel and tried to undermine their own journalists who were calling for her to go.

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NBC News Executives Really Wanted Ronna McDaniel

Dylan Byers at Puck News has published what is the definitive account of the civil war that broke loose at NBC News after they hired Ronna McDaniel and tried to put her on MSNBC.

The most astonishing part of the story is that even after talent and viewers rebelled, NBC News executives were conspiring with McDaniel against their own journalists and the expressed interests of their viewers.

Byers wrote:

Todd’s kamikaze mission opened the floodgates, unnerving Conde and the NBC News leadership, who seemed to anticipate the impending insurgency and frantically tried to pre-empt it. On Sunday, Budoff Brown reached out to McDaniel’s aide and former chief of staff at the R.N.C., Richard Walters, to…