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Teri Kanefield Mar 30, 2024

I took some time to think about the Ronna McDaniel hiring and firing.

The result is that I have written another blog post that has me going against the current.

https://terikanefield.com/the-ronna-mcdaniel-story/

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Some news: I may be back in Nevada doing voter protection work with the Nevada Democrats after several cycles in Georgia. A little closer to home.

The Ronna McDaniel Story - Teri Kanefield

The announcement that NBC / MSNBC hired former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel as a contributor prompted an “open revolt” by MSNBC “stars,” who went directly to their TV and social media audiences to denounce the hiring because (among other things) McDaniel supported Trump’s lie that the election was stolen. In response to the revolt, the network executives […]

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Kee Hinckley Mar 30, 2024

@Teri_Kanefield It’s a good explanation, and helps me understand why I’ve never cared for MSNBC’s commentators, even when they were right.

I do wish you had a one paragraph tl;dr at the start though. No receipts. Just “liberal media does this too: they said this happened, this is what actually happened. This is normal stuff.”

I think the people that need to hear it are glazing over before they get to the bottom.

And I say this with all the love and support of someone who writes huge posts that are far too long, and then spends hours shrinking them down to large posts that are still too long. At one job I literally started adding tl;dr’s to my email messages. It helped.

And yet, here I am at over 700 characters already.

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Teri Kanefield Mar 30, 2024

@nazgul

I understand and I thought about that. For one thing, I spent way too long on it.

On the other hand, I just felt the need to document what I was seeing this past week to explain why I think it is broken.

Also, listening to Rachel Maddow literally turned my stomach. How do people not see through it all?

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Ande Jacobson

@Teri_Kanefield @nazgul: Excellent question. I have friends who swear by Maddow, but she's not reporting on events, she's entertaining them. I think for many it's a serious case of confirmation bias. They agree with what she's saying, so they "like" it even though it enrages them. The cable talk shows certainly have that psychology down.

My question is will we ever be able to fend off the whole echo chamber phenomenon exacerbated by the information disruption we're living through? In all of it, truth is the casualty, and without enough people living in the real world, well, democracy is in danger.

Everyone needs to read your book - and I really hope the people who desperately need to the most will.