NBC News journalists vexed by MSNBC's move to hire White House press secretary Jen Psaki
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Source: CNN
New York (CNN Business)NBC News journalists are troubled by and have expressed dismay to network executives about MSNBC's intention to hire White House press secretary Jen Psaki when she exits the Biden administration, people familiar with the matter told CNN.
Noah Oppenheim, the NBC News president, even held an impromptu phone call Friday so that he could address the matter with vexed staffers from the Washington bureau, some of whom have complained to their superiors that the tentative hiring tarnishes the NBC News brand.
Oppenheim, attempting to quell the anger, reaffirmed the distinction on the call between NBC News and MSNBC's opinion programming, some of the people familiar with the matter said.
Oppenheim, who does not oversee MSNBC, told the journalists that NBC News did not have a role in hiring Psaki. And he noted to those on the phone that they work for the NBC News brand and that the hires made for MSNBC's opinion arm should be viewed as unrelated to their work, the people said.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/media/jen-psaki-nbc/index.html
Walleye
(31,363 posts)He started out as Bill Clintons press secretary
agingdem
(7,923 posts)Dick Cheney's press secretary...
Walleye
(31,363 posts)ananda
(28,996 posts)They are conservative and want to brandish the GOP banner
all the time...
and she will outshine them and make them look bad.
agingdem
(7,923 posts)that could be what they're afraid of...
Unwind Your Mind
(2,054 posts)JustAnotherGen
(32,268 posts)If it was her, or Jonathan Capehart.
They are both precise communicators.
thenelm1
(885 posts)agingdem
(7,923 posts)Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell...enough said!!!
PatSeg
(48,227 posts)intheflow
(28,546 posts)True Blue American
(18,014 posts)Was told, No one would have ever heard of us without Bill Clinton when George made a nasty remark about him.
hlthe2b
(102,910 posts)Methinks I hear Chuck Todd grumbling that he might not get to promote RW memes as readily with more willing to go toe to toe with RW talking points.
onetexan
(13,136 posts)gab13by13
(21,908 posts)True Blue American
(18,014 posts)If she took over MTP?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)groundloop
(11,588 posts)onetexan
(13,136 posts)Evolve Dammit
(17,013 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Hiring an actual crook is really crossing the line.
JohnSJ
(92,682 posts)for networks
https://www.axios.com/jen-psaki-white-house-press-secretary-tv-pundits-69ee4683-7e5f-4cfe-ac15-bf6543f774f1.html
OneBro
(1,159 posts)NewDayOranges
(695 posts)spot that they want/are in...
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Plus, her competence will shame them.
thenelm1
(885 posts)OnDoutside
(19,998 posts)trying out are, being kind, average.
EarlG
(22,067 posts)For some reason it has disappeared but the cached version is here:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cQswPgRsZFoJ:https://www.yahoo.com/video/almost-every-white-house-press-184558165.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Anyway, it noted that almost every WH press secretary over the last 20 years went on to a cable news gig.
TRUMP
Kayleigh McAnany: Fox News
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: Fox News
Sean Spicer: Newsmax TV
Stephanie Grisham: No cable news gig!
OBAMA
Josh Earnst: NBC/MSNBC
Jay Carney: CNN
Robert Gibbs: NBC/MSNBC
GEORGE W. BUSH
Dana Perino: Fox News
Ari Fleischer: Fox News
Tony Snow: CNN
Scott McClellan: No cable news gig!
And then of course there are people like George Stephanopolous from earlier years. Not sure why there's such a fuss about Psaki all of a sudden.
Edited to add: I see the Axios article was linked in a post above.
Baitball Blogger
(46,920 posts)thenelm1
(885 posts)Arguably better than anyone on that list.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Can't see why decent journalists would be unhappy.
Jarqui
(10,150 posts)I'm happy for her if that is what she wants
But Joe Biden is going to be very hard pressed to find someone better.
Baitball Blogger
(46,920 posts)In fact, it's time to send Andrea Mitchell to NBC.
BumRushDaShow
(131,340 posts)(above here in Philly back in the 1970s interviewing jackass mayor Frank Rizzo as a reporter for then NBC-affiliate KYW-TV Channel 3)
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)tavernier
(12,505 posts)Word for word, at the exact same moment.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Seriously though, the line just wrote itself.
tavernier
(12,505 posts)She is the true evil twin, the antithesis of myself.
She is a lying, pot stirring hypocrite, a dark and malevolent human. I am radiant sunshine, kind and healing. Birds land on my shoulders and cute little animals come and sit next to me in our flower garden. 🌷🌷🌷
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)You sound like the right person with whom to share a bench. 🌞
turbinetree
(24,785 posts)"journalist" at NBC are afraid of what MSNBC to do and put the spot light on the lack of the other "news" organization and what NBC that maybe they are not really doing there job, and then I just wonder if the MTP jerk and the wife of Greenspan had anything to do with this along with Kelly O'Donnell and others they want to have a say on who belongs to the "club" ..........it just shows that whoever is doing this BS tells me that those "journalists" at NBC are not doing there job except spewing the right wing talking points.....resign.....
she's competent, intelligent and quick on her feet. Unlike the Chuck todds and Andrea Mitchells of this world...who have shown their compromised 'journalistic' opinions many times over. Plus the green-eyed monster seems to be at play here...also
GB_RN
(2,520 posts)He's no more qualified for his job than Tim Russert's kid was, or Dancin' Dave Gregory (R-Karl Rove's Dancing Partner) and Jen Psaki being there would limit his ability to "both sides" issues.
ETA: This is also them probably trying to look "independent" after CBS just hired Mick "The Knife" Mulvaney (R-Lying POS), but he's a partisan hack, not a competent purveyor of facts like Jen Psaki.
bringthePaine
(1,782 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,900 posts)I think Katie Couric was talking about how mean people get. And how hard they manuever to set themselves up and make others look terrible. They do it in a lot of subtle ways and the other people have no idea what is being said and done behind their back
I wouldn't last 15 seconds.
Fla Dem
(24,161 posts)Mike Brzezinski with Joe Scarborough 6:00 - 10:00
Andrea Mitchell 12:00
Katy Tur 2:00
Hallie Jackson 3:00
Nicole Wallace 4:00 - 6:00
Joy Reid 7:00
Rachael Maddow 9:00
Stephanie Ruhle 11:00
So in an 18 hour day news cycle, females anchor or co-anchor 12 hours.
If Andrea Mitchell (she's 75) retires anytime soon, maybe some male journalists were looking to fill that slot and now see Psaki taking that slot.
Earth-shine
(4,044 posts)Rachel doesn't seem to want it anymore.
Psaki is superstrong!
PortTack
(32,922 posts)Omaha Steve
(100,192 posts)People's opinions, not important breaking news. Can be posted in GD.
Vinca
(50,391 posts)Psaki is perfect for MSNBC. I hope she gets her own show.