Newsman Dan Rather, who knows personally about losing credibility, slammed NBC’s hiring of former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, charging that her pro-Trump bias will erode the public’s trust in media.
“Allowing McDaniel to be in the same area code as NBC News is a huge mistake and will only further shred the small amount of trust Americans still have in the mainstream media,” Rather said on his Substack Steady.
“One wonders what the hell executives at the network were thinking,” he added.
Rather titled his post “Journalism Lesson #1 for 2024” and used it to slay NBC news executives, specifically Carrie Budoff Brown, senior vice president of politics, who had said of the recent hire, “It couldn’t be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna’s on
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