Journalist Chuck Todd, easily one of the most popular and recognizable personalities at NBC News, has announced that he’s ditching the network after almost two decades, which is yet another sign the mainstream media outlet, along with many of its fellow propagandists, have hit the skids so to speak and become less relevant in today’s world than ever before. And that, my friends, is a very good thing. With the corrupt media lying constantly and seeking to push propaganda rather than facts, it’s better for the current system to come crashing down than remain in place.
According to Trending Politics News, Todd, who is the longtime host of “Meet the Press,” hasn’t been on the air much ever since 2023. he recently informed his colleagues that he would be leaving the network. Kristen Welker replaced Todd during his absence.
According to insiders who spoke with the outlet, Todd has been actively courting other employers in the media landscape after his contract expired toward the end of 2024.
“There’s never a perfect time to leave a place that’s been a professional home for so long, but I’m pretty excited about a few new projects that are on the cusp of going from ‘pie in the sky’ to ‘near reality,’ Todd said to NBC News staffers in a memo blasted out on Friday. “So I’m grateful for the chance to get a jump start on my next chapter during this important moment.”
The “Chuck Toddcast” show he created and manages independently of NBC News would remain part of his repertoire, he added, so “stay tuned for an announcement about its new home soon.” Until he lands somewhere else, the former anchor plans “to continue to share my reporting and unique perspective of covering politics with data and history as important baselines in understanding where we were, where we are and where we’re going.”
Podcasting is honestly a better platform for reaching an audience than nightly or weekend news broadcasts anyway. Those on either side of the political spectrum who run a podcast have full control over the content and who they have on as guests. It’s free speech at its best. And it’s podcasting that really helped push President Donald Trump over the edge to win over young voters in the 2024 election.
“We’re grateful for Chuck’s many contributions to our political coverage during his nearly two-decade career at NBC News and for his deep commitment to Meet the Press and its enduring legacy. We wish him all the best in his next endeavors,” an NBC News spokesperson went on to say in a statement to Variety.
Many news networks have been losing their most popular on-air talents as of late, so it’s not difficult to see why Todd might be eager to begin a new chapter in his career. The outlet revealed that Todd was sort of a visionary at NBC News. He pushed the program into the podcasting arena along with launching a film festival. With that kind of mind and spirit, I’m positive this guy knows what he’s doing. He’ll likely be far more successful on his own than with NBC.
“Everyone is trying to figure out how to get in front of millennials. I think the millennial generation learns as much visually as they do the old-fashioned way, by the book,” Todd stated during an interview with Variety in 2017 concerning his burning desire to get in the new media space. “We are no longer in the business of telling people how they should consume information. Our job is to provide depth and information in any way they want to consume it.”
In his memo, Todd sounds a note of alarm about the country’s waning trust in long-established news institutions and encouraged those remaining behind to recommit to earning it back from their viewers.
“The media has a lot of work to do to win back the trust of viewers/listeners/readers and I’m convinced the best place to start is from the bottom up. At my core, I’m an entrepreneur — I spent my first 15 years professionally working for the company that started the political newsletter craze that dominates today. And this is a ripe moment,” he said.
“The only way to fix this information ecosystem 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. National media can’t win trust back without having a robust partner locally and trying to game algorithms is no way to inform and report. People are craving community and that’s something national media or the major social media companies can’t do as well as local media,” the former “Meet the Press” host said in the memo.
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