Ronna McDaniel, TV News and the Trump Problem

罗娜·麦克丹尼尔,《电视新闻与特朗普问题》

The Daily

2024-04-01

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Ronna McDaniel’s time at NBC was short. The former Republican National Committee chairwoman was hired as an on-air political commentator but released just days later after an on-air revolt by the network’s leading stars. Jim Rutenberg, a writer at large for The Times, discusses the saga and what it might reveal about the state of television news heading into the 2024 presidential race. Guest: Jim Rutenberg, a writer at large for The New York Times.
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  • From the New York Times, I'm Michael Balbaro.

  • This is the Daily Today, the saga of Ronald McDaniel and NBC, and what it reveals about the state of television news headed into the 2024 presidential race.

  • Jim Rutenberg, a Times writer at large, is our guest.

  • It's Monday, April 1.

  • Jim, NBC News just went through a very public, a very searing drama over the past week that we wanted you to make sense of in your unique capacity as a longtime media and political reporter at the time.

  • This is your sweet spot.

  • You were, I believe, born to dissect.

  • This story for us, brother.

  • Well, on the one hand, this is a very small moment for a major network like NBC.

  • They hire as a contributor, not an anchor, not a correspondent as a contributor.

  • Rhonda McDaniel, the former RNC chairwoman, it blows up in a mini scandal at the network, but to me, it represents a much larger issue that's been there since that moment Donald J.

  • Trump took his shiny gold escalator down to announce his presidential run in 2015.

  • This struggle by the news media to figure out, especially on television, how do, do we capture him, cover him for all of his lies, all the challenges he poses to democratic norms, yet not alienate some 74, 75 million american voters who still follow him, still believe in him, and still want to hear his reality reflected in the news that they're listening to.