Longtime MSNBC host Rachel Maddow aired the network’s main lineup change on Monday night’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” which pulled Anchor Joy Reid out.
“Joy Reid’s performance, ‘reidout’, ended tonight. Joy didn’t do different jobs in the network. She completely left the network, which was very, very, very, very hard to accept.” Maddy explain. “I’m 51 years old. I’ve been employed since I was 12. But in all the years I’ve been alive, no colleague has more affectionate than Joy Reid in all my work. and respect. I love everything about her. I learned a lot from her. I have a lot to learn from her. I don’t want to lose her as a colleague at MSNBC, personally, getting her out of the door is a Bad mistake.”
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Along with Reid, MSNBC’s big introduction saw host Alex Wagner, who was relegated to contributor on Monday night on McDonald’s Monday night. The move comes shortly after Rebecca Kutler, a former senior CNN director, was appointed as the new president of MSNBC.
Maddow says MSNBC’s “two non-white hosts in prime time are losing their performances.” She went on to point out that Katie Phang will also lose the weekend time period.
Maddow also highlights the people that happened behind the camera. Maddow believes some of MSNBC’s “most experienced and talented” producers are facing layoffs.
“They were invited to reapply for a new job,” McDonald said. “This scale never happened this way until the programming changes. Presumably, because it’s not the right way to treat people. It’s inefficient and unnecessary It makes people feel like a good place like this. So we don’t usually do that.”
Maddow’s comments were posted for hours, with President Trump targeting Brian Roberts, CEO of NBCUniversal’s parent company Comcast, calling him “Lowlife” and a “spiritually nasty racist.” “It should have been “canned” a long time ago.”
“The whole corruption action [of MSNBC] Trump wrote on “Social Truth” Sunday night. “They should be forced to pay huge sums of money for the losses caused to our country. Fake news is an unforgivable sin!”
Maddow, who was filled with emotion with her voice, said: “It’s a tough time for the news business, but it doesn’t need to be so difficult. We welcome new voices to this place and welcome some familiar voices to the new ones. Time. Honestly, it will be great and we want to grow, succeed, and connect with more people in the past and stay resilient and stay here forever. I also believe, I bet you believe, get there The way is to be kind by treating people. Find good people, good colleagues, do a good job with them and support them on their backs. We can do better. It’s much better.”
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