MSNBC host criticizes NBC News for hiring the former head of the Republican National Committee

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As she should.

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• doublejay1999@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone who looks closely at this topic will find there has been a revolving door between media and government staff for quite a while now.

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  • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can somewhat understand why you would hire someone with experience in politics to be commenter for political shows, but my preference would be to draw a line in the sand and to say that people directly connected to power shouldn’t be be on the news, or they should be publicly disclosing their conflicts of interest. That’s journalism 101.

    But this hire stepped it up a notch. She was literally fueling the mobs that are sending death threats to NBC News.

    Shocker, people don’t want to work with someone that has been working on getting them whacked by crazies.

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    • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is the important takeaway. We can debate the value of pulling people in from different campaigns and administrations. But someone who helped organize and encourage insurrection and propaganda in this manner deserves nothing but ridicule and ostracism. Not a several $100,000 a year job.

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• MasterNerd@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Conflict of interest much?

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How is it a conflict of interest?

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hiring a political operative to head a news organization?

      Can’t imagine where the conflict lies.

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• AncientEther@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hypocritical when Jen Psaki goes from Biden’s White House Press Secretary to show host on MSNBC.

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  • ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The issue is not her stint in politics, but rather her election denialism and attacks on journalists.

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    • AncientEther@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I just want to recognize that the media is dysfunctional and biased as a propaganda arm of government. Let’s also take issue with others like:

      Michael Steel RNC Chair to MSNBC commentator Steve Schmitt R Campaign manager to MSNBC political analyst Nicole Wallace Bush’s WH Communications Director to MSNBC host

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  • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did Jen Psaki commit treason?

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  • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Psaki didn’t help to facilitate a coup and didn’t do things that caused NBC journalists to get repeated death threats.

    That’s the main, and very clear, point of the piece.

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People unable or unwilling to not lie shouldn’t be in journalism.

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  • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • the_artic_one@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You could have insulted them without insulting people who have down syndrome.

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    • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your comment is also in the wrong there, friend.

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