Top execs of Comcast issued a memo to all Comcast and NBCUniversal employees about remarks made by Matthew Dowd , who was fired as an MSNBC contributor after he said on the air that conservative activist Charlie Kirk was a “divisive” figure who pushed “hate speech.” Kirk was shot and killed Wednesday at an event in Utah.

The memo Friday came from Comcast CEO Brian Roberts , Comcast president Mike Cavanagh and Mark Lazarus, who is CEO of Versant, the spinoff company that will include MSNBC ( to be renamed MS NOW ).

“You may have seen that MSNBC recently ended its association with a contributor who made an unacceptable and insensitive comment about this horrific event,” the memo says. “That coverage was at odds with fostering civil dialogue and being willing to listen to th

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