Comcast’s top brass slammed MSNBC’s coverage of the killing of conservative activist Charlier Kirk — including “insensitive” and “inappropriate” remarks by analyst Matthew Dowd who was fired on Thursday.

The memo, which was signed by Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, Comcast president Mike Cavanagh and Mark Lazarus, CEO of Versant — the spinoff company that includes MSNBC — was circulated to Comcast and NBCUniversal staff on Friday.

“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 said. 3

“That coverage was at odds with fostering civil dialogue and being willing to listen to the points of view of those who have differing opinions. We should be able to disagree, robustly a

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