Rachel Maddow’s career appears to be on the line after MSNBC executives fired most of her production team as part of the network’s broader restructuring efforts.
Maddow suffered an on-air meltdown earlier this week after Joy Reid’s show, The ReidOut, was abruptly axed.
MSNBC has informed production employees that they are being let go as part of the network’s programming overhaul.
While Maddow will get to keep her executive producer, Cory Gnazzo, along with several other senior producers, it appears she is already on thin ice.
The remaining Maddow production team, along with producers who worked on other canceled shows hosted by Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Ayman Mohyeldin, and José Díaz-Balart, have all been given the option to claim severance or reapply for new roles.
“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,” Maddow said on Monday’s show.
“I love everything about her,” she continued.
“I have so much more to learn from her. I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC, and personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door.”
“It is not my call, and I understand that, but that’s what I think.”
She also accused her network of racism for letting go of two other “non-white” hosts.
“At a network where we’ve got two—count ’em, two—non-white hosts in primetime, both of our non-white hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is [Asian host] Katie Phang on the weekend,” Maddow said.
“And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them,” she continued.
“That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it.”
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Now is the time. Get it done!
Hate spreaders and fear mongers should not make up any journalists list.
America needs honest media to be united.
This woman made her name by spouting horrible, untruthful, accusations against the BOM. Her blatherings have been shown to be ill-founded proving that she in not a journalist but rather, a big-$ seeking, shreiking shrew. Who cares what she thinks? The 10-15 percent of American people who actually think it is okay to abort a healthy baby just before childbirth because the mother has changed her mind? The maybe 25% who think it’s okay to tell vile lies about Trump because “the end justifies the means?” She keeps playing identity politics – it’s truly not Joy Reid’s color that makes her unwatchable to me, it’s the constant display of incompetence when it comes to telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. If MSNBC would put someone like Condolezza Rice on, I would be glued to the set. Even though she disagrees with Trump on some key things, I would know that it is coming from real thought rather than the headline-grabbing mindset that MSNBC has let them run with. Sometimes sequels like “The Thomas Crown Affair” and “The Producers” can be better – RM certainly could put Jim Carrey to shame in a reprisal of “Dumb and Dumber.” Her identity politics and hatred-spewing have had their time – she can rest easily on the 10’s of M$ she has raked in from her small, unshakable “audience of the stupid.” Good luck to them and good riddance as the dominos fall.
After paying to 30 million for her other libelous story that Madcow put out the executives at NBC know they are one show away from a billion dollar lawsuit.
Bwahahahahaha!
Marry her!