NBC should not have fired Ronna McDaniel: Richard M. Perloff [Video]

When CABLE news networks develop programming that merely reinforces their audience’s attitudes, they contribute to the nation’s polarization, hardening attitudes, increasing animus, and, in the long run, reducing the quality of democracy that MSNBC claimed to value in the short-sighted decision to fire Ronna McDaniel, writes guest columnist Richard M. Perloff, Distinguished Professor of Communication, Psychology, and Political Science at Cleveland State’s Levin College of Public Affairs and Education.