Lawrence O'Donnell ... OUT?

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5. Griffin plus Maddow plus O'D?

A Sunday Huffpost story suggesting that O’Donnell’s show is on the chopping block has fueled internal speculation about O’Donnell’s future, along with other rumored shakeups at MSNBC, including fears of a change in status for its longtime president, Phil Griffin, who reports to Andy Lack, chairman of NBC News and MSNBC.

A network executive told The Daily Beast that the Huffpost story is wrong, and said O’Donnell and MSNBC management are negotiating “with an eye towards renewal and a new deal.”

The same exec said on Tuesday that Griffin’s job is safe, and that he’ll remain as MSNBC’s president “for years to come.”

Griffin loyalist Rachel Maddow, who happens to be the top-rated personality in cable news, had privately expressed concern about her boss’s future and declared to colleagues in recent weeks that if Griffin leaves, she would follow him out the door.

The 61-year-old Griffin, who has been running the cable outlet for the past decade and officially was named president in July 2008, is the executive who took a big risk on Maddow in August of that year, giving the little-known radio personality and left-leaning cable commentator her own prime-time television show.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/16/is-lawrence-o-donnell-facing-the-chop-at-msnbc