Well, this piece hit quite a nerve, and readers seem to appreciate it. Thanks for the comments and share! "Drain MSNBC of Viewers As It Whitewashes its Network to Placate Trump" open.substack.com/pub/thelefth... - ThreadSky

wajali.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Well, this piece hit quite a nerve, and readers seem to appreciate it. Thanks for the comments and share!

"Drain MSNBC of Viewers As It Whitewashes its Network to Placate Trump" https://open.substack.com/pub/thelefthook/p/drain-msnbc-of-viewers-as-it-whitewashes?r=36kin&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Comments

jegath.bsky.social•3 days ago

😡😡😡

ashleyg82.bsky.social•3 days ago

I will always watch Rachel Maddow. I like this history she reports on.

51alien.bsky.social•3 days ago

💔👽💔👽💔

vanillarage.bsky.social•3 days ago

For America, the grand experiment of free thought and expression is witnessing a slow, steady death, and the executioner wears a long red tie...

silenceredux.bsky.social•3 days ago

🎶...and I'm already gone...🎶

delighth.bsky.social•3 days ago

This was great as was your segment on Democracy-ish. Really helped to understand what cable news looks like behind the scenes.

mwentround.bsky.social•3 days ago

Same. Zero news and I haven’t listened to NPR since after the election.

caligurl07.bsky.social•3 days ago

Haven’t watched in years … 🙄🙄

gloria6262.bsky.social•3 days ago

We are in full boycott mode MSNBC

santacruzmag.bsky.social•3 days ago

I tuned back into MSNBC about 3 weeks ago after a blackout post election. Reid is my GoTo show and since she's gone, I'm out. The other hosts weak ass responses are infuriating and Steele and Sanders should be ashamed of themselves for accepting that time slot.

vl2024.bsky.social•3 days ago

Time to close this place. Irrelevant now …

cvilletownie.bsky.social•3 days ago

I won’t ever watch MSNBC again. Black voices and role models are important. I’m white and I value black representation.

thecaraluhring.bsky.social•3 days ago

As the Eagles sang: 🎼 I’m already gone 🎵🎶

belle-1253.bsky.social•3 days ago

One of the reasons I watched MSNBC was for it's diversity of anchors. Sometimes the only mainstream news that represented all communities of our diverse nation. I stopped watching CNN during the first Trump administration because it allowed too many sycophants on air without challenging their lies.

michaelblurry.bsky.social•3 days ago

Deleted the app yesterday.

phoukaco.bsky.social•3 days ago

I used to watch MSNBC all day. I have not watched it since the inauguration. I probably won’t again.

aafror.bsky.social•3 days ago

Good article, I'm glad it struck a nerve. It's a complete whitewashing, and they're catering to an outdated democratic establishment as well as, seemingly, Trump. We're hearing the dying gasps of MSNBC, and they're selling out for one last breath.

stark7777.bsky.social•3 days ago

They bent the knee in order to curry favor what's the current administration, just like morning, Joe. Now the rest of you have to fall in line for you will be wiped out. Or you will be gone from MSNBC. Trump doesn't like black people so MSNBC does like enough said

fizzicyst.bsky.social•3 days ago

I watch Rachel Maddow on YouTube w/out commercials thanks to pirates.

Fuck you, MSNBC.

bradrayburry.bsky.social•3 days ago

Rachel should leave in protest and take her viewers with her.

peaceprole.bsky.social•3 days ago

No Vichy media. Proximity is collaboration.

concerned2.bsky.social•3 days ago

Boycott all mainstream media

Don't go give the orange turd any air time

jollyholly2.bsky.social•3 days ago

I gave up on MSNBC right after the election and now with this move I’ll never go back. Online sources are growing daily.

laurisanne.bsky.social•3 days ago

I am from Australia so MSMBC is not on my radar. Having listened to many American podcasts over the past 5 years, including Danielle , Wajahat and Joy Reid, however i believed the demise in the quality of MSMBC was definitely in the pipeline.

jollyholly2.bsky.social•3 days ago

I agree. We need reliable sources that just give us the facts and we can decide what we think about it.

mikeythedude.bsky.social•3 days ago

YES! Drain the SWAMP, INCLUDING MSNBC! #BoycottMSNBC
MSNBC has bent the knee to Hitler 2.0, sadly. I no longer watch anything MSNBC anymore; sorry, Rachael M.

mikkifh.bsky.social•3 days ago

Can we just start calling NBC The Nazi Bullshit Company now?

edieblay.bsky.social•3 days ago

Agree!!

vesuvan.bsky.social•3 days ago

Please talk about all these 'Trump is so great' TV commercials they're airing 4 or 5 times an hour on MSNBC

Plus the disgusting KKKristi Noem ad

stephdw.bsky.social•3 days ago

There are more people of color in this country than white people. Why don’t we band together to create our own unified platform for news from the perspective of POC? I shut MSNBC off ages ago for their lack of diversity in hosts and tokenism.

gillianbillion.bsky.social•3 days ago

Bye bye MSNBC

kauaihorses.bsky.social•3 days ago

MSNBC went DOGE.

bduhon.bsky.social•2 days ago

Middle-aged white guy originally from the heel of the Louisiana boot. Stopped watching MSMBC a while back. This is the least surprising thing ever, as corporations try to appease mediocre white people afraid of actual equality.

studio-michaud.bsky.social•3 days ago

Your tea-spilling stories were really eye-opening. Democracy-ish is a never-miss show for me. I listen to it before anything else when it hits my inbox. 🫡🔥 Keep up the great work! You inspire.

hedleylamarr23.bsky.social•3 days ago

The fact that they did this AND rewarded Trump fangirl Katy Tur with an extra hour a day says it all.

barbarabolstad.bsky.social•3 days ago

She and Morning Joe are the worst! I like Steele and Saunders but Tur and Joe and Mika are horrible!

cosmicbreeze12357.bsky.social•3 days ago

OMG, everyone hates her.

missyandtillycorgi.bsky.social•3 days ago

There's a reason she's called Katy Turd.

dzaia40.bsky.social•2 days ago

I turned MSNBC off when their election coverage began in Fall, 23. It was unbearable, and became completely useless Nov. 5. I'll never go back. And, as much as Maddow's requiem last night was supposedly on point, i just say, "Rachel who?" She quit on us. I quit on her. Sorry.

debwallace.bsky.social•3 days ago

I cut way back on TV news in November. It was just too much for my nervous system to process. Nowadays I watch Lawerence 4 nights a week.

kinoptika.bsky.social•2 days ago

wildflowerpoppy.bsky.social•3 days ago

I quit watching MSNBC the day after the election.

joe-thoma-iv.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm not sure that the people that are still watching can be reached.

bhashakids.bsky.social•3 days ago

I stopped watching before the election

I prefer to follow each journalist on their own platforms then support MSNBC

hunababy1.bsky.social•3 days ago

Haven't watched or listened in over a year. No going back.

lestatdelc.bsky.social•2 days ago

Kinda weird to see so many here who stopped watching MSNBC since election night, get enraged at MSNBC for shaking up their programing on-air slots because of collapsing ratings, over a black woman in a prime time slot get5ting replaced by a different black woman, a black man, a latina woman.

monkgirl.bsky.social•3 days ago

After decades of loyal viewership I happily purged MSNBC and CNN to the proverbial curb prior to the election, and absolutely no regrets. Highly recommend the fresh air.

hogandda.bsky.social•3 days ago

Are Michael Steele, the former head of the RNC, Symone Sanders, former counsel to Kamala Harris, and Alicia Menendez all white people?

Who knew?

jeanne430.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ofcourse not !

hogandda.bsky.social•3 days ago

Well, they are getting Joy’s time slot plus another hour (8 to 9) on Monday’s

MSNBC didn’t get rid of all its news hosts that are people of color.

I hate they fired Joy, she is the only one

jeanne430.bsky.social•1 day ago

She is definitely the only one