The recent announcement that former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel will join NBC News as a contributor has brought much controversy, much of it misplaced. Rather than asking why NBC News decided to hire McDaniel — the question the corporate media hyperventilated about over the weekend and into Monday — people should instead ask why McDaniel wanted to join such an obviously corrupted institution.
The media outrage demonstrates that Romney will get no respect or plaudits from the mainstream elite. So why do she and others sign contracts at places like NBC, and allow themselves to get played by a media that just wants a few “token” conservatives on the air to disguise their cultural Marxism?
Racist Quotas and Woke Bias
Just over a year ago, I wrote that the RNC should decline to have the major networks participate in the party’s debates for presidential candidates, because of their woke, and likely unconstitutional, “diversity” metrics that categorize employees by gender and skin color. Among that group, NBC News seems particularly objectionable, given that Chairman Cesar Conde publicly called for a quota of making half of the division’s employees nonwhite and half female.
Of course, these same media executives looking to check every racial, ethnic, and gender box care little about their employees’ political bias, which NBC and other media institutions somehow “forgot” to include in their diversity reports. Instead of making an effort to hire conservatives, or at minimum ideological centrists, at every level of the organization —
