Maddow Gets Perfectly Timed Bad News Right After Ripping MSNBC for Cutting ‘Non-White’ Shows
Teh article discusses recent changes at MSNBC, especially focusing on the controversial dismissal of host Joy Reid and the subsequent staff layoffs from Rachel Maddow’s show. Rachel Maddow publicly criticized the network’s decision to let Reid go, expressing concern over the treatment of minority hosts within the network, as now both non-white prime-time hosts have lost their shows. In the wake of Maddow’s comments,MSNBC announced layoffs affecting most of her production team,although Maddow herself will retain a few senior staff members. The network indicated that these layoffs are part of a strategic shift rather than a widespread downsizing. This situation reflects broader challenges faced by MSNBC as it seeks to redefine its identity and address criticisms of its programming, particularly in the context of the ongoing political landscape.
MSNBC doesn’t appear to be done shaking things up.
After Monday’s news of former host Joy Reid being let go, “Rachel Maddow Show” host Rachel Maddow used air time that evening to express her disapproval of the network’s decision.
Now the network is laying off staff of her own show.
Maddow expressed her affection for Reid as a friend and a colleague, then brought up the issue of race, saying she found it “unnerving to see that a network where we’ve got two — count ’em two — non-white hosts in prime time. Both of our non-white hosts in prime time are losing their shows.”
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Rachel Maddow says Joy Reid got fired because she’s ‘bIack’…
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Maddow found it indefensible that these minority colleagues were being let go. Apparently, MSNBC executives must have been watching that evening, as they later announced they found it necessary to cut staff from a prime-time show with a white host — Maddow’s.
On Tuesday, the U.K.’s Guardian reported MSNBC told most of Maddow’s production staff that they are being let go.
These staff can claim severance or reapply for another position with MSNBC if they choose, according to the report.
Maddow will keep her executive producer and a few other senior producers.
According to the Guardian, MSNBC did not say “widespread layoffs” were happening, as this is part of an effort to shift the network to support “new priorities.”
You could say Maddow got her wish.
Monday saw her complain that MSNBC was treating non-white employees unfairly.
What better way to correct such treatment than to give a white host the bad news as well?
An overhaul at MSNBC is long overdue.
What was once a respectable network has devolved into the 24/7 anti-Donald Trump circus.
CNN — in trying to save themselves from total collapse — recently recognized they, too, needed a rebranding.
Pundit Scott Jennings at times carries the weight of the entire network, as he seems to be the only conservative voice and likable personality at CNN among a roundtable of leftists.
If MSNBC hopes to survive the second Trump term, it may be time they find their own Scott Jennings.
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