Teri KanefieldMar 28, 2024

Offering this free through my subscription:

"McDaniel was offered a more lucrative contributor contract after she agreed to appear on MSNBC and not just NBC News"

https://wapo.st/3TyPTDi

I may write about the irony of all of this for my weekend blog post.

NBC offered Ronna McDaniel a better contract to appear on MSNBC

The cable channel was part of the broad push to clinch a contributor deal for McDaniel, whose hiring caused an uproar.

The Washington Post
Show threadTeri KanefieldMar 28, 2024

This is the problem right here:

"In a friendly call between Jones and McDaniel, the two spoke about the . . need to have differing views on the airwaves."

People don't need "differing views."

They need facts.

The way MSNBC presents "news" the facts gets lost in an avalanche of opinions, speculation, and conjecture.

They are making their viewers less informed and angrier.

Show threadhelgenug

@Teri_Kanefield

"But perhaps the most striking and frightening aspect of the German flight from reality is the habit of treating facts as though they were mere opinions."
Hannah Arendt (The Aftermath of Nazi Rule - Report from Germany. In: Commentary 10 (1950), p. 342 (344); https://de.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt)

Considering today's debating 'culture' I am tempted to add "... and mere opinions as though they were facts.".

Hannah Arendt – Wikiquote

Mar 28, 2024 at 1:44pmWeb
Show threadKennethMar 29, 2024
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