I've tweeted this story before, but feel like it's relevant again: When I was working for NBC and they hired Megyn Kelly I publicly stated that I thought it was a huge mistake bc I believed Megyn was a racist and had made racist statements. NBC brass hauled me into an HR meeting
NBC HR admonished me and said I "wasn't being a team player and was making them look bad." I said, "You're making yourself look bad with this hire, if I had tweeted or said some of the things Megyn has said, would you still hire me?"
NBC HR quibbled "different network...we don't know about all of that (bullshit)" and said I was hurting the network's credibility. I said "Megyn hurts our network's credibility."
They asked how we would work together if this was out there. I nearly burst out laughing bc I said, "We were never going to work together in the first place, she's on the fourth hour of the Today show and that's a completely separate vertical" (they hate when you use their terms)
NBC HR asked how we were going to resolve it. (Yes, apparently it was up to me to solve, not the multimillion hire) I said, "If she wants to take take ownership and apologize for what she said, I can see about doing the same."
I left the meeting with NBC HR and almost a year to the day later, Megyn was terminated after she said it was ok for white people to wear blackface for Halloween.
Suffice it to say: with everything swirling around the Ronna McDaniel hire, I believe Ronna is either gonna fuck up herself (people rarely change who they are) or the internal turmoil will be too much for the NBC brass to contend with.
@dprzygoda 😂😂😂🙄 Worst take ever on why @megynkelly was terminated.
@dprzygoda Please point me to where you’re on record condemning Trudeau and all Hollywood elite that have actually worn blackface. I’d really love to read it.
that's not what she said. she was asking if it's ok to wear black makeup for a Halloween costume, which indeed when I was a kid, was done. People would go as OJ, or Michael Jackson, with shoe polish. Is that acceptable, i dont' know would presume...but in asking that question she mispoke using the term "blackface" which of course has all the implications of mistral shows, lawn jockey's etc, all of the racist problematic implications. She apologized, done and done. It's only a problem for people who aren't as good at journalism imho. I am not a Republican. Similar story about white Santa. If anyone would listen, I'd get into it- as it is, I'll leave it be.
@dprzygoda And I bet you never got an apology for.basically calling it.