NBC News is about to really take a hard hit in the ratings department after it was revealed that longtime host and journalist Chuck Todd, who formerly hosted the weekend news program, “Meet the Press,” is leaving the network after almost 20 years on the desk. This is more proof that mainstream media, which has become left-wing propaganda and nothing more, has become so irrelevant in the current culture that popular personalities and hosts are reading the writing on the wall and making their way to new media.
This is a really good thing for Americans. It means that the current corrupt structure of the media is crumbling and being replaced with alternative sources and outlets that will provide a more balanced view and approach to issues of the day. You can feel free to shop around so to speak and get information from different sources in different mediums. It’s better for freedom of speech as there aren’t gatekeepers attempting to censor opinions.
A new report from Trending Politics News, stated that Todd, who has rarely been on the air since 2023, told his colleagues he was leaving in a memo blasted out on Friday. Kristen Welker replaced Todd during his many absences from “Meet the Press.”
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 went on to say to NBC News staffers in the memo. “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 provides a much better platform for reaching different demographics than traditional television news. Young people were convinced by President Donald Trump’s message, delivered through multiple appearances on popular podcasts like “The Joe Rogan Experience,” to come out and vote for his America first agenda. It’s a powerful tool when utilized properly.
“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 remarked in a statement obtained by Variety.
Todd himself saw the writing on the wall for the end of traditional TV journalism a while ago. He actually is responsible for pushing “Meet the Press” into the realm of podcasting, along with launching a film festival. It seems Chuck has a bit of an entrepreneurial spirit.
“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 told the folks at Variety in 2017 when explaining his passionate 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 explained.
“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 concluded.