Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, cares only about growing itself and making money.

They know that to do this they have to have products to sell to every corner of America.

Murdoch has (wildly successfully) already demonstrated that the hate-right/paleo-right was an underserved market in this country.

The reason Chuck Todd exists is for Comcast to offer products to every niche in the US.

Broadcast “journalism” even more so than print journalism has no high ground. It is a product that exists to sell advertising time.