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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 10:21 PM Nov 2020

MSNBC Cuts Loose Two More Contributors With Biden Transition Ties

MSNBC is shedding more contributors as numerous on-air figures join President-elect Joe Biden’s transition efforts.

On Tuesday, an MSNBC spokesperson confirmed that Barbara McQuade and Richard Stengel will no longer be paid contributors after both were announced as part of Biden’s agency review teams, which will help prepare the incoming administration to work with existing agencies. McQuade, a legal analyst for MSNBC/NBC News and University of Michigan Law School professor (and occasional Daily Beast contributor), was listed as a member of the president-elect’s Department of Justice Review team; Stengel, an MSNBC political analyst, was listed on the Biden review team for the United States Agency for Global Media.

MSNBC cutting ties with the two paid contributors comes just one day after the network cut loose several other contributors that have worked with Biden’s campaign or transition efforts.

Following a New York Times report that historian Jon Meacham had assisted the president-elect’s team with speechwriting—a fact he did not disclose on-air even while commentating on Biden’s victory speech—the network ended paid-contributor deals with him and Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an MSNBC medical expert who was appointed to Biden’s coronavirus task force this week.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/msnbc-cuts-loose-two-more-225834805.html

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MSNBC Cuts Loose Two More Contributors With Biden Transition Ties (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2020 OP
I guess they have to do that, but I'll miss hearing from those people. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2020 #1
The appearance of impropriety. rzemanfl Nov 2020 #2
Good for them (AND us,) but sad we won't see them! elleng Nov 2020 #3
I really Rebl2 Nov 2020 #6
Hopefully they'll be back. SharonClark Nov 2020 #4
Whatever. They can have them back as guests. Just don't need to pay them. bullimiami Nov 2020 #5
Access to insiders is not a bad thing and I'm not BrightKnight Nov 2020 #7
I don't see this as problematic... Spazito Nov 2020 #8

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,280 posts)
1. I guess they have to do that, but I'll miss hearing from those people.
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 10:24 PM
Nov 2020

I'm glad they will be on Biden's transition team, though. These are some first-class minds.

rzemanfl

(29,540 posts)
2. The appearance of impropriety.
Tue Nov 10, 2020, 10:27 PM
Nov 2020

Heavens! What would Fox do? I don't disagree that this is entirely in keeping with the old rules of behavior, i.e., before Drumpf.

Spazito

(49,765 posts)
8. I don't see this as problematic...
Wed Nov 11, 2020, 06:26 PM
Nov 2020

given it relates to paid positions and doesn't negate them from appearing on MSNBC as guests.

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