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(43,402 posts) Thu Mar 28, 2024, 05:06 AM Mar 28

Carrie Budoff Brown Of NBC Is Responsible For Hiring Ronna McDaniel

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/24/2231334/-Carrie-Budoff-Brown-Of-NBC-Is-Responsible-For-Hiring-Ronna-McDaniel

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.

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Carrie Budoff Brown Of NBC Is Responsible For Hiring Ronna McDaniel (Original Post) Celerity Mar 28 OP

I liked Rashida Jones on Parks and Rec... Bucky Mar 28 #1

Two different Rashida Jones's Celerity Mar 28 #2

This didn't surprise me Doc Sportello Mar 28 #3

There's going to be a lot of finger point at NBC. No one person was solely responsible. Fla Dem Mar 28 #4

Bucky

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1. I liked Rashida Jones on Parks and Rec...

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Thu Mar 28, 2024, 05:13 AM

Mar 28

...but I guess I really underestimated her ability to be president of MSNBC

Celerity

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2. Two different Rashida Jones's

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Thu Mar 28, 2024, 05:23 AM

Mar 28

Rashida Leah Jones (born February 25, 1976) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is best known for her roles as Louisa Fenn on the Fox drama series Boston Public (2000–2002), as Karen Filippelli on the NBC comedy series The Office (2006–2009; 2011), as Ann Perkins on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation (2009–2015), and as the eponymous lead role in the TBS comedy series Angie Tribeca (2016–2019).

Rashida Jones (née Adkins; born 1980 or 1981) is the president of the cable news network MSNBC. She is the first Black woman to lead a major cable news network.

Doc Sportello

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3. This didn't surprise me

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2024, 09:10 AM

Mar 28

Years of working at a large institution taught me that people who reach the top are often just good at climbing the ladder (also sociology 101 regarding bureaucracies). It's not because of some leadership talent and certainly not because they have a vision for the organization that includes an understanding of its place in the world. Brown is the perfect example of that. Constitution, laws, ethics, democracy? Huh, what are those?

Fla Dem

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4. There's going to be a lot of finger point at NBC. No one person was solely responsible.

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Thu Mar 28, 2024, 10:54 AM

Mar 28

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.

New YorkCNN —
Cesar Conde has a decision to make — and it’s not an especially difficult one.

The NBCUniversal News Group chair is facing a torrent of backlash from his own staff after greenlighting the hire of former Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel as a paid network contributor…

While NBC News president Rebecca Blumenstein and senior vice president of politics Carrie Budoff Brown were most directly responsible for McDaniel’s hiring, a decision that MSNBC boss Rashida Jones did not object to it at the time, the buck ultimately stops with Conde, who hold the real power at the Peacock Network. McDaniel’s hiring could not have happened without Conde’s blessing.

But it will probably be one of the lesser execs and a woman who will be fired.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/26/2231627/-CNN-Has-Names-For-Those-Involved-In-NBC-s-Hiring-Of-Ronna-McDaniel

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