Posted on 09/12/2025 2:52:29 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Friday morning, MSNBC’s corporate leadership issued a rare mea culpa over its coverage of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
In a staff memo, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, President Mike Cavanagh, and Versant CEO Mark Lazarus apologized for the coverage and for remarks made by former senior political analyst Matthew Dowd, calling them "unacceptable and insensitive."
Dowd had been fired earlier this week after suggesting Kirk’s "awful words" had brought about his own murder — comments made just minutes after the death of the 31-year-old was announced.
The letter opened with solemn language:
The tragic loss of Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old father, husband, and advocate for open debate, whose faith was important to him, reminds us of the fragility of life and the urgent need for unity in our nation. Our hearts are heavy, as his passing leaves a grieving family and a country grappling with division. There is no place for violence or hate in our society.
Charlie Kirk believed that when people stop talking, really bad stuff starts. Regardless of whether you agreed with his political views, his words and actions underscore the urgency to maintain a respectful exchange of ideas – a principle we must champion. We believe in the power of communication to bring us together.
As employees, we ask you to embody our values in your work and communities. We should engage with respect, listen, and treat people with kindness.
Dowd deserved to be fired.
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msnbc is back to EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN/ ORANGE MAN BAD
MSWho?
/watching Real Americas Voice on Roku
It is BS they are getting with acting like Dowd was an outlier when every one of those scumbags said just about the same thing.
On msnbc they were all babbling about how the real problem is gun violence.
AP is no better. Our local print rag has zero on the front pages of the Sep 11 and today’s paper about Charlie.
If some leftist trash had OD’d while in cop’s custody, it would be headline news with full page coverage.
The leftist media is the majority of the problem. They aid and abet the democrat/communists with each opportunity to effectively brainwash a good portion of America’s useful idiots.
Exactly - Dowd was the fall guy for all the others.
Agree.
Apology not accepted, MSNBC.
L
Kirk was all about free speech.
If you don’t like MSNBC, then don’t watch it and don’t post links to its website. It will collapse on its own.
Dowd took one for the team.
The blue team.
They'll do the same with the President, yes?
Probably no.
“If you don’t like MSNBC, then don’t watch it and don’t post links to its website. It will collapse on its own.”
MSNBC has been defying the free-market in media communications for a long time. It’s almost like the free market is irrelevant where it comes to MSNBC.
MSNBC has been defying the free-market in media communications for a long time. It’s almost like the free market is irrelevant where it comes to MSNBC.
They are a drop in the bucket to the conglomerate that owns them.
And yet Freepers still post to MSNBC and CNN. Stuck on stupid.
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