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How sorry are we willing to let ourselves feel for the network
brass? Now instead of having Maddow and Joy Reid as attack dogs,
they are the target of the attacks and criticisims.

from https://www.thedailybeast.com/rachel-maddow-and-joy-reids-staff-get-axed-in-msnbc-overhaul/

Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid’s Staff Get Axed in MSNBC Overhaul
BLOODBATH
The network’s massive shake-up saw the cancellation of several shows
hosted by non-white anchors, prompting sharp criticism from Maddow.
Julia Ornedo
Julia Ornedo
Reporter

Updated Feb. 26 2025 8:16AM EST
Published Feb. 26 2025 12:38AM EST
Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow
Getty Images

The sweeping overhaul at MSNBC has reached production staff after
tearing through its lineup of anchors.

The network has already told the majority of employees who produce
Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid’s shows that they were being let go with the option to apply for new roles, according to two sources who spoke to The Guardian.

Maddow, MSNBC’s biggest star, will get to keep her executive producer
Cory Gnazzo and multiple other senior producers, the sources said.

The rest of her team, however, was reportedly given the option to claim severance or apply for new roles within the network along with producers
for other canceled shows.

Maddow is hosting her show five nights a week for the first 100 days of Trump’s administration, but will scale back to Monday nights only.
Maddow’s team also worked on Alex Wagner’s show, which was canceled in
the overhaul. Former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki will
take over Tuesday-Friday nights, according to the report.

An MSNBC source told The Guardian that the changes were not “widespread layoffs” but simply a reallocation of producers to support the latest
changes made to the network’s programming.

TODAY -- Pictured: Rachel Maddow on Monday, October 16, 2023 -- (Photo
by: Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)
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MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler earlier announced massive changes to the network’s daytime, primetime, and weekend schedules, headlined by the cancellation of Joy Reid’s The ReidOut.

Other non-white MSNBC anchors who lost their eponymous shows were Katie
Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Ayman Mohyeldin, and José Díaz-Balart.

Maddow lashed out at the network on Monday over the shake-up.

The cancellation of The ReidOut “is very, very, very hard to take,”
Maddow said. “In all of the jobs I have had in all of the years I have
been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and
more respect than Joy Reid.”

New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Axed
CUTTING HEADS
Corbin Bolies
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“I will tell you it is also unnerving to see that on a network where
we’ve got two—count them, two— non-white hosts in primetime, both of our non-white hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang
on the weekend,” she added. “And that feels worse than bad, no matter
who replaces them. That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it.”

Reid expressed “pure gratitude” for her supporters in a tearful defense
of her show.

Phang said she was “stunned” to hear of her show’s cancellation, though she will remain on the network as a legal correspondent with no anchor slot.

MSNBC suffered a post-election drop in ratings but has since rebounded
to beat out CNN as left-wing viewers flock to its combative coverage of
the second Trump administration.


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