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MSNBC is shedding more contributors as numerous on-air figures join President-elect Joe Bidens 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 Bidens 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-elects 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 Bidens campaign or transition efforts.
Following a New York Times report that historian Jon Meacham had assisted the president-elects team with speechwritinga fact he did not disclose on-air even while commentating on Bidens victory speechthe network ended paid-contributor deals with him and Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an MSNBC medical expert who was appointed to Bidens coronavirus task force this week.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/msnbc-cuts-loose-two-more-225834805.html
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)I'm glad they will be on Biden's transition team, though. These are some first-class minds.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)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.
elleng
(130,956 posts)and Meacham! Been wondering about the speeches!
hearing from Meacham. Sad to see him go, but understand totally.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)bullimiami
(13,095 posts)BrightKnight
(3,567 posts)sure that Fox would do the same. It is the right thing to do.
Spazito
(50,349 posts)given it relates to paid positions and doesn't negate them from appearing on MSNBC as guests.