The Slow Death of MSNBC

[djacq]

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When you end four shows, hosted each by a person of color, all at once, and Lester Holt stepping down,

"Something is rotten in Denmark"

[claudette]

1. I will only

watch Nicole Wallace, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell. MSNBC made a big mistake. Those "weekend" people are ridiculous to watch. I only did it twice. That was enough. Oh, I do like Ali Velshi, too.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

14. Sob! Please don't say that. If more happens at MSNBC, I will be devastated.

They have kept me sane for many years. They are the only truth tellers, Network- wise. They are my “best friends” next to my “real life” friends.

[yellow dahlia]

16. I think they would have done better to move Lawrence to the 9:00 slot.

Jen Psaki is only okay.

I thought Joy's hour was the weakest link in the evening line up. I wish they had found a different slot for Joy Reid. Some have suggested "Joy in the Morning" to replace Joe and Mika. I wouldhave been fine w/ losing Joe and Mika.

The Weekend trio format as a panel works, but I find Symone to be a distraction. When she wasn't there, I found the interaction and discussion between Michael Steele and Alicia Mendenez to be more interesting. One weekend they tried some fill in people - that worked also.

Some of the anchors and analysts/experts became my "friends" during Covid and throughout the political chaos of the last eight years. A little sanity and some brilliant minds to learn from.

MSNBC isn't perfect, but it the only option for televised news and information, right now.

[Mike 03]

19. I agree with everything you wrote.

It's hard to explain some of the changes they've made. But it's also true that MSNBC is the best we've got for TV--and I mean progressive television that is influential. Free Speech TV is great but not as many people watch it. The Progress channel on SiriusXM is fantastic, but again it's costly with fewer listeners.

I'm not crazy about the idea of the panel, or the panelists for that matter. Although, Michael Steele has grown on me since November because I think he is taking everything more seriously. I also appreciated him getting real with Joe Scarborough during their scrape on Morning Joe.

[bdamomma]

2. The higher ups

hate Diversity.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. Yes, I noticed... it's disgusting!!

[spooky3]

4. Capehart and Mohyeldin will stay on.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20067547

[dem4decades]

5. They look like the people that are replacing them?

[dchill]

6. Lester Holt was with NBC, which is no longer affiliated with MSNBC or CNBC.

Just saying.

[Frasier Balzov]

12. What is your source for the parentage?

Does this Wikipedia article need updating?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_News#:~:text=The%20NBCUniversal%20News%20Group%20also,United%20Kingdom%2Dbased%20Sky%20News.&text=30%20Rockefeller%20Plaza%2C%20New%20York%20City%2C%20U.S.

[dchill]

13. It's in the works - most likely will happen.

Details in this AP article:
https://apnews.com/article/msnbc-president-leaving-jones-d9ef19430ff321499a30d57909f6f882

[Mike 03]

20. That's right. But I still think it's worth asking about the timing and

reasons behind it. Could be totally unrelated, but it also might not be.

[SocialDemocrat61]

7. Yet the two white ass kissers

in the morning still have a show

[Submariner]

8. Trump is working hard to have Maddow dumped

so this was a warmup of things to come, or a trade off of throwing 4 under the bus to save the one top Liberal political analyst in the biz.

[spooky3]

11. It's a business, and mgt knows Rachel brings in the best ratings

And hence $$$. She has a lot of power. And if they were to fire her, they know another network would rush to sign her up, so they’d have to compete against her.

Trump isn’t going to have any more success if he goes up against her than he did in any of his other ventures.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

15. He is telling people to stop MSNBC for firing Joy,

Then went on to call her “low rated.”

[Botany]

9. Good God in Butter.

They are surrendering to the fascist coup thinking they will be saved from the blow back
of the shit storm we are in and “they” can make some big money too.

Btw if we are going down we need to go down fighting. DEI just means not being a dick
to people who might not look like you, think like you, have sex differently than you, or
speaks a different language than you. If you have a problem with DEI then the problem
is with you not with DEI aka shove you bigotry up your ass.

[FloridaBlues]

10. The weekend show is successful from 8-10 am. Hopefully it's jus as good

Tuesday through Friday. Capehart will host with several other people not named in the weekend mornings.
Guess we will have to wait who fills in these slots. Hope for the best.
I dislike cnn and a never fox viewer.
Will miss Joy Reid.

[BComplex]

17. Joy is the one I'm really going to miss so much.

I just love her. She's smart, friendly, compassionate, fun....did I say smart? I meant brilliant!

[Mike 03]

21. She's one of my favorites now, after a long period where I was really

lukewarm. There came this period where I realized that she was expressing the emotions I was feeling the most like they felt to me and it was really validating. O'Donnell is so good at that as well.

[Shoonra]

18. I am sorry to see Joy Reid go

I am not clear on how dumping four news analysts (especially with the very poor optic that they all are non-white) protects Rachel Maddow, especially since Maddow had managed to reduce her appearance to one night a week. Seems to me more like ill-disguised racism. Those four will have trouble finding comparable jobs. And, frankly, if Maddow were dumped by MSNBC, she's have a lot of trouble finding a comparable job (comparable to her star billing and paycheck).