Kradek posted... Their staff did that because of pushback. Scarborough, I believe, talked about how he was inundated with calls from viewers as were his coworkers. The MS pundits/hosts were only so vocally against it because the public was so vocally against it with them.
If their viewers, IE their source of money and "stock go up/down" behaved as they normally do, sighed with exasperation to themselves, we wouldn't see this pushback.
NBC hiring of Megyn Kelly is an example of this. She ruined her own career there because she is a trash human being who turns everything she touches into shit, so after like 3 episodes they paid her millions per her remaining contract time to gtfo. Their audience largely just grumbled to themselves over the hiring, the pushback with McDaniel is unique because she is such a unique sack of shit insurrectionist.
From what I've heard just the 300k, they paid Megyn Kelly millions when they fired her because she was part of a contract and that was the remaining she was supposed to make for a specified amount of time.
McDaniel was brought on as a paid contributor, not as an actual anchor.
One of my radio progressive pundits is a paid contributor for MSNBC/CNN, so she definitely wasn't being hired in the same capacity as Kelly was.
Kinda crazy you can say blatantly racist shit on air and that's not worthy of firing for cause.