NBC News asserted Monday that it is not involved in a Hillary Clinton miniseries being developed by NBC entertainment after coming under fire from the Republican National Committee.
“NBC News is completely independent of NBC Entertainment and has no involvement in this project,” Communications Director Erika Masonhall tweeted.
RNC Chair Reince Priebus penned a letter to NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt Monday threatening to exclude the network from partnering with the RNC for 2016 presidential primary debates if the network doesn’t scuttle the programming.
“NBC cannot purport to be a neutral party in American politics, and the credibility of NBC News, already damaged by the partisanship of MSNBC, will be further undermined by the actions of NBC Universal executives who have taken it upon themselves to produce an extended commercial for Secretary Clinton’s nascent campaign,” Priebus wrote.
Stmt from @NBCNews re RNC/Clinton: “NBC News is completely independent of NBC Entertainment and has no involvement in this project.”
— Erika Masonhall (@ErikaMasonhall) August 5, 2013
