Contradicting a statement by NBC’s head of political coverage, MSNBC President Rashida Jones said in an email to the channel’s employees that her division will refuse to feature new political contributor Ronna Romney McDaniel, the Wall Street Journal reports.
NBC executive Carrie Buddif Brown’s announcement of McRomney’s signing noted that the former RNC head would contribute “across all NBC News platforms,” a statement that got pushback from MSNBC liberal viewers and staff, who cite McRomney’s support and promotion of Donald Trump’s election lies and insurrection efforts as discrediting factors.
But in a separate email to MSNBC staff, Jones assured her team that the network would stay true to the facts reported, questioning the new contributor’s analysis and statements given she was complicit in many of the criminal acts being covered. McRomney is scheduled to make her network debut Sunday on Meet the Press on NBC.