On Politics: Seeking balance, tripping up

The question of how to cover Donald Trump is no closer to being solved. 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Once again, a major news network is on the defensive over an attempt to balance out its ranks of talking heads — a mainstay of the genre — with a pro-Trump surrogate whose qualifications for the role appeared to run counter to the basic tenets of journalism. McDaniel, after all, had been a prominent exponent of the false notion that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. As my colleague Alexandra Berzon and I [reported](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn5yK4P4RQAWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm55dGltZXMuY29tLzIwMjQvMDMvMjYvdXMvcG9saXRpY3Mvcm9ubmEtbWNkYW5pZWwtdHJ1bXAtbmJjLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9OSZjYW1wYWlnbl9pZD01NiZlbWM9ZWRpdF9jbl8yMDI0MDMyNyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMTg2MzkmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE4Njk1Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9MTMyNzQzNTkmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE2MTg4NyZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE2MTk0NSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9NDI0YWE2MGExMDkyZGJmZDg5NzQ5MTU2YWM2ZDM0MzkmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgpmBLidBGZclw0GUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAM~) yesterday, McDaniel was also at times involved in Trump’s attempts to stave off the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. While the crackup may seem as if it was inevitable in retrospect, it was also reflective of a hallmark of the Trump era: After two impeachments, a Capitol riot and numerous criminal indictments, the question of how to cover Trump is no closer to being solved. In case you are also afflicted with the [collective amnesia afflicting so many Americans](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn5yK4P0TraHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMy8wNS91cy9wb2xpdGljcy90cnVtcC1wcmVzaWRlbmN5LWVsZWN0aW9uLXZvdGVycy5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTU2JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NuXzIwMjQwMzI3Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExODY5NSZubD1vbi1wb2xpdGljcyZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTYxOTQ1JnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgpmBLidBGZclw0GUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAM~), let’s rewind to 2016, not too many months after Trump descended his shiny escalator to announce his presidential run. CNN took similar heat when it hired pro-Trump figures like his former campaign manager [Corey Lewandowski](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn5yK4P4Q-AWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9saWZlc3R5bGUvc3R5bGUvY25ucy1oaXJpbmctb2YtY29yZXktbGV3YW5kb3dza2ktaW5zdWx0cy10aGUtcHJlc3MtLWFuZC13b21lbi8yMDE2LzA2LzI4LzBjYjIyMTFjLTNkNGQtMTFlNi04NGU4LTE1ODBjN2RiNTI3NV9zdG9yeS5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTU2JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NuXzIwMjQwMzI3Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExODY5NSZubD1vbi1wb2xpdGljcyZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTYxOTQ1JnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgpmBLidBGZclw0GUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAM~) and the say-anything Trump [defender Jeffrey Lord](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn5yK4P0TwaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxNy8wOC8xMC9idXNpbmVzcy9tZWRpYS9qZWZmcmV5LWxvcmQtZmlyZWQtdHJ1bXAtY25uLW5hemlzLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAzMjcmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE4Njk1Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNjE5NDUmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmYEuJ0EZlyXDQZSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~). “I think it’s really important to have voices on CNN who are supportive of the Republican nominee,” Jeff Zucker, then the CNN president, [said at the time](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn5yK4P4SQAWh0dHBzOi8vbW9uZXkuY25uLmNvbS8yMDE2LzExLzExL21lZGlhL2NvcmV5LWxld2FuZG93c2tpLXJlc2lnbnMtY25uL2luZGV4Lmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAzMjcmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE4Njk1Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNjE5NDUmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3Izp-OnRleHQ9Q05OJTIwUHJlc2lkZW50JTIwSmVmZiUyMFp1Y2tlciUyMHN0b29kLGlkZW9sb2dpY2FsJTIwZGl2ZXJzaXR5JTIwb24lMjB0aGUlMjBhaXJ3YXZlcy4mdGV4dD0lMjJJJTIwdGhpbmslMjBpdCdzJTIwcmVhbGx5JTIwaW1wb3J0YW50LGZpbmQlMjBhJTIwbG90JTIwb2YlMjB0aG9zZS5XA255dEIKZgS4nQRmXJcNBlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAD) in the face of an open staff revolt. Bridging the divide NBC executives made nearly the same case this time around. One senior executive at the network, who agreed to speak to me on the condition of anonymity, said the network was seeking voices who could reflect the views of the 2024 Trump movement. The NBC executive argued that the network had a joint business and journalistic imperative to have contributions from people like McDaniel, who are more aligned with the tens of millions of current-day Trump voters. (It’s also worth noting that [Trump effectively fired McDaniel](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn5yK4P0TjaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMi8yNi91cy9wb2xpdGljcy9yb25uYS1tY2RhbmllbC1ybmMtdHJ1bXAuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD01NiZlbWM9ZWRpdF9jbl8yMDI0MDMyNyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMTg2OTUmbmw9b24tcG9saXRpY3MmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE2MTk0NSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKZgS4nQRmXJcNBlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAD) as head of the Republican National Committee, and [mocked her when the position was terminated](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn5yK4P0TfaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlZ3VhcmRpYW4uY29tL3VzLW5ld3MvMjAyNC9tYXIvMjcvdHJ1bXAtcm9ubmEtbWNkYW5pZWwtbmJjP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTU2JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NuXzIwMjQwMzI3Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExODY5NSZubD1vbi1wb2xpdGljcyZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTYxOTQ1JnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgpmBLidBGZclw0GUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAM~).) NBC already has a complement of conservative contributors like Stephen Hayes of [The Dispatch](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn5yK4P0SvaHR0cHM6Ly90aGVkaXNwYXRjaC5jb20vP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTU2JmVtYz1lZGl0X2NuXzIwMjQwMzI3Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExODY5NSZubD1vbi1wb2xpdGljcyZyZWdpX2lkPTc3Njc0OTUyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9MTYxOTQ1JnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1hYTQ5MWVmN2YxZDk2NGU0OTc5ZmI3ODRlNzRlMDFkN1cDbnl0QgpmBLidBGZclw0GUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW45MEBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAM~) and Charlie Sykes of The Bulwark, but they are both of the “Never Trump” camp. “It’s not good enough to just have anti-Trump conservatives — it doesn’t capture the robust debate on the right,” Hayes told me. Yet finding the right pro-Trump surrogate, he acknowledged, is a challenge — especially when exit polls have shown large percentages of Trump’s voters believe his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. 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But the supposed election fraud is so abjectly counterfactual that journalistic outlets like NBC cannot accommodate anyone who treats it seriously. Though McDaniel deplored the violence on Jan. 6, she had previously argued that Democrats had engaged in “stealing” and, though Trump wanted her to do more, she played a part in some efforts seeking to stall certification of Biden’s victory. That was one of the prime arguments made by her detractors within MSNBC and NBC News, who insisted that they were not opposed to hiring pro-Trump voices. “We all recognize a variety of views is vitally important in understanding our country, in doing good programming,” the MSNBC host Chris Hayes said on his show after NBC broke with McDaniel. “There’s just a pretty bright red line in American life after Jan. 6 — on one side of that line are people who aided and abetted in this attempt to end the democratic system as we know it.” [Continue reading the main story](#a11y-skip-universal-0) ADVERTISEMENT [Ad](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn5yK4P0SWaHR0cHM6Ly9saXZlaW50ZW50Lm5ld3lvcmt0aW1lc2luZm8uY29tL2NsaWNrP3M9MTYyMjA4JmxpPUNOJm09YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDcmcD1DTl8yMDI0MDMyNyZ0ZT0xJm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJmVtYz1lZGl0X2NuXzIwMjQwMzI3VwNueXRCCmYEuJ0EZlyXDQZSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~) The Trumpian shoals NBC isn’t the first network to crash on treacherous ideological shoals while seeking balance. Doing so helped lead to the abrupt end of [Chris Licht’s tenure](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn5yK4P0TdaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMy8wNi8wNy9idXNpbmVzcy9tZWRpYS9jaHJpcy1saWNodC1jbm4uaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD01NiZlbWM9ZWRpdF9jbl8yMDI0MDMyNyZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0xMTg2OTUmbmw9b24tcG9saXRpY3MmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE2MTk0NSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKZgS4nQRmXJcNBlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAD) as the CNN president last year, after he held an unruly town-hall-style event in which Trump produced a geyser of falsehoods to the great applause of an audience packed with his fans. Licht may have pleased the Warner Bros. Discovery chief executive David Zaslav, [who said](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn5yK4P0TkaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY25iYy5jb20vMjAyMy8wNS8xOC9jbm4tdHJ1bXAtdG93bi1oYWxsLWZhbGxvdXQtemFzbGF2LWxpY2h0Lmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAzMjcmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE4Njk1Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNjE5NDUmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmYEuJ0EZlyXDQZSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~), “We need to show both sides of every issue.” But he rapidly lost his newsroom, and soon, his job. Licht’s successor, Mark Thompson, a former New York Times chief executive, soon found himself in a similar conflict with staff, over when to take Trump’s speeches live — and for how long — as my colleague [Michael Grynbaum reported](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn5yK4P0TqaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMS8xOS9idXNpbmVzcy9tZWRpYS9jbm4tdHJ1bXAtaW93YS1jYXVjdXMtc3BlZWNoLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTYmZW1jPWVkaXRfY25fMjAyNDAzMjcmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MTE4Njk1Jm5sPW9uLXBvbGl0aWNzJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xNjE5NDUmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmYEuJ0EZlyXDQZSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAw~~). 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