When I tell you there are vanishingly few decision-makers in journalism who do this and we're all the poorer because of it ... Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. www.thenation.com/article/soci... - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

sorayanadiamcdonald.com • 1 day ago

When I tell you there are vanishingly few decision-makers in journalism who do this and we're all the poorer because of it ...

Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/joy-reid-reidout-cancellation/

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profmarylewis.bsky.social•1 day ago

Another network should pick her up.

mhartman.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s a horrible, horrible loss and this is the time for white journalists to step up and pick up the mantle and continue her good work. Stop the racism in journalism.

kategrams.bsky.social•1 day ago

I loved this about Joy. She had new, young voices on her show, black and brown voices that you wouldn’t hear anywhere else. So disappointing

katecohenart.bsky.social•1 day ago

Same. Plus Joy is brilliant.

choosefreedom14.bsky.social•1 day ago

I love her, so don’t take this wrong but ratings were down. Replacing her with two African Americans and a latino in a format that seems more popular. She will not lose her voice!!!

ourobororoboruo.bsky.social•1 day ago

😭

gloria6262.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Trump and Republicans believe only white men should be in charge. SLAVERY is over. BLACK POWER is coming to kick redneck racist asses

aepanico.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is heartbreaking

kantbemyself.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Morning Joe has more repeat guest talking about shit they’re not prepped on than the Joe Rogan Experience. The world knows intuitively how low-info cable news is.
They’re in NY and book fewer experts than an Austin podcaster. It’s embarrassingly lazy.

barbiedory.bsky.social•1 day ago

I immediately deleted my MSNBC. One of the last news organizations I watched. Sayonara!!

chiffonelle29.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fucking vomitous .

philomenabee.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sorry but Joy Ann Reid trashed Bernie Sanders every day in 2015/2016, not exactly progressive!

katecohenart.bsky.social•1 day ago

MSNBC made a HUGE mistake. Huge.

jianliyang.bsky.social•1 day ago

A phone call btwn 2 partners, Don & Elon.
"How are you doing, Elon?"
"I’m doing well, Don, but I have bad news for you."
"What is the shit?"
"About a billion dollars of Treasury spending has no record, and it’s unknown where it has gone."
"Dude, you know I know all the tricks. Please put it back."

vanala.bsky.social•1 day ago

MSNBC just wrote their own obituary, we already have an all white network, its called Fox. Its too bad because I miss them telling the news before they became the new Fox.

exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social•1 day ago

this HURTS

deanalan5.bsky.social•1 day ago

We are poorer for her absence from the conversation.

dannygallagher.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m so disgusted with my industry. It has the power to take on what’s wrong but it cowers under pressure and calls it the right thing to do.

quasarologist.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh my god they did NOT fuck with Joy Ann Reid holy SHIT 😭

sorayanadiamcdonald.com•1 day ago

"You’ll note that all three of these Black women, while under intense pressure and scrutiny not just from the white-supremacist forces that now run this country but also from their own bosses, still gave opportunities to young, untested nonwhite voices."

kbeveridge.bsky.social•1 day ago

Beautifully written.

kimbellsmowgli.bsky.social•1 day ago

Will others follow Joy out the door? Others with white and male privilege? They also fired Ayman.

keithchaffee.bsky.social•1 day ago

They did not fire Ayman. They're moving him to a different show, as part of a panel of co-hosts.

kimbellsmowgli.bsky.social•1 day ago

Being moved from your own show is a demotion.

keithchaffee.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’ll still be hosting a show, and it looks like it will be the same timeslot. But even if that’s somehow a demotion, you’re moving the goalposts. You didn’t say he was demoted, you said he was fired. He wasn’t.

kimbellsmowgli.bsky.social•1 day ago

You are right.

kimbellsmowgli.bsky.social•1 day ago

You are right.

sorayanadiamcdonald.com•1 day ago

I swear being a Black woman in American journalism is just constant running, trying to stay a half step ahead of the next rug-pull and it never seems to matter how good or accomplished or smart you are, they will try their best to push you out it is exhausting

penkc.bsky.social•1 day ago

Don’t quit!!!

conniebl3u.bsky.social•1 day ago

Anything a Black woman accomplishes is because she worked five times harder than any white man.

sorayanadiamcdonald.com•1 day ago

"The Black mentor class is being fired, not just on television but throughout America. White folks will still get all the training and opportunities they need, but Black folks will have to figure it out for themselves. Nobody will be around for us."

Exactly this @elienyc.bsky.social. I see it too.

tamarz.bsky.social•1 day ago

As an old white lady, I want to add: Joy Reid's show was always interesting, interactions with guests lively, and discussion was intelligent and very informative.
She often led the way in covering issues that scared other hosts e.g., As a Jewish American, I really appreciated her coverage of Gaza.

kelbelle83.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Yeah, my dad - a 70yo southern white man - loved her show and he is spitting mad that it was canceled.

astridatkinson.bsky.social•15 hours ago

It should be better than this.

sknowsthatp.bsky.social•1 day ago

This thread too

collaterly.bsky.social•22 hours ago

did the russian homophobic blog hackers ever get found

janeqpublic.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’ve been thinking about how they’re going to just slowly fire the 3%-20% of women, black people and POC that are currently in leadership positions so that our youth will also feel that white male is default and “tradition”

raythecloser.bsky.social•16 hours ago

what happed was wrong...
But she was a voice at MSNBC...
There are great black voices...just not at that platform

egality.bsky.social•1 day ago

Never forget the “time traveling hackers” that framed her for writing those outrageously bigoted hate speech posts on her blog.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/04/28/media/joy-reid-hacking-claims-msnbc/index.html

egality.bsky.social•1 day ago

There’s tons of black women who have far better politics, and have the requisite skills to do everything Joy did, but better.

The mess up part of this system is not that Joy got fired, it’s that only rightwing neoliberal shills were ever considered in the first place.

caseinsensit1ve.bsky.social•16 hours ago

All of my grievances with her were based on her centrist neolib position, yes, but that's not why they fired her. They fired her because she's black and MSNBC wants to comply in advance with the neo-Jim Crow that they think is coming. That's not cool.

egality.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Oh, did they put that in writing? That was very stupid of them to admit they fired her for being black. They’ll be sued to oblivion, thanks for the update!

bslkuye1.bsky.social•1 day ago

💖💖💖

richardkeppler.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nobody in the media hated Bernie Sanders more than Reid. It was one of the reasons I cancelled my cable subscription. There was just nothing on it I wanted to hear.