Gonna take misinformation down to zero
Another mainstream journalist is quitting his job to become an independent media “entrepreneur.” Chuck Todd on Friday announced his departure from NBC News, his corporate employer of nearly 20 years. He is taking his podcast, The ChuckToddcast, with him to a “new home” yet to be revealed.
“At my core, I’m an entrepreneur … And this is ripe moment,” Todd wrote in a memo to colleagues. “The only way to fix this information eco system is to stop whining about the various ways the social media companies are manipulating things and instead roll up our collective sleeves and start with local.”
Todd is the latest self-righteous media figure this week to quit his job at a mainstream establishment. Obnoxious anchor Jim Acosta resigned from CNN on Tuesday, the same day crotchety columnist Paul Krugman announced his departure from the New York Times. Krugman and Acosta immediately sought solace in the arms of the Contrarian, a new Substack website founded by former Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin and former CNN analyst Norm Eisen. Krugman published an article explaining his resignation on the Contrarian, and Acosta did a bizarre webcast with Eisen.
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A handful of mentally ill wine moms are tremendously excited about the #Resistance “Dream Team” starting to take shape on Substack, a platform many mainstream journalist have denounced for eschewing fact-checkers and promoting “misinformation.” The addition of Todd would give the Contrarian a formidable starting five akin to the 1992 USA basketball team that featured Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Karl Malone, and Patrick Ewing. Alleged humor columnist Andy Borowitz, author of “Inauguration to be Held Inside Cybertruck” and other knee-slappers, would also join the rotation.
NBC News has been trying to get rid of Todd since 2023, when the network ended his nearly 10-year run as host of Meet the Press. He was one of several NBC personalities who attacked network executives for enlisting former RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor in March 2024. Todd slammed the decision to hire someone with “credibility issues” and a history of “gaslighting.” NBC cut ties with McDaniel less than a week later and apologized to employees for having “let them down.”
If Donald Trump isn’t quaking in his jackboots, he should be. His worst nightmare is about to come true.