The anger inside MSNBC after the network preempted its top morning hosts on the first day of the Republican National Convention reached a crescendo Tuesday, with people inside the network and close to the situation dumbfounded as to how executives could have created a situation that allowed its top stars to go scorched earth on them for the second time in four months.
Multiple sources described the sentiment inside 30 Rock to The Daily Beast as intense frustration, with employees eviscerating NBC News Group President Cesar Conde and MSNBC President Rashida Jones’ decision Monday to yank Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski off the air on the first day of the Republican National Convention.
“The buck stops with Cesar,” one source close to the situation said.
