I always thought MSNBC was supposed to be super liberal. This is a travesty and blows. Joy Reid had one of the best shows on the network the few times I actually watched her. Hope she lands in a good place and gets the support she obviously should have.
I'm thankful for Rachel Maddow's and Nicole Wallace's inspiration, along with their master classes in factual truths all these years. May they, Lawrence O'Donnell and others not be fired too.... oh pleeeez
@mcuban.bsky.social has the resources to get into the media game, since all the other channels seem to have gone over to the dark side. He could build a network around people like Maddow, O'Donnell, Wallace and the bunch that just got fired. Fox and its ilk are responsible for this debacle.
Lawrence O'Donnell nailed Trump as a dangerous psychopathic malignant narcissist before anybody else on TV did. He had Duty To Warn founder Dr. John Gartner and anti-Trump psychoanalyst Lance Dodes, MD, on several times for example.
My husband and I especially appreciate Lawrence O’Donnell because he really relishes calling Trump names. When he gets wound up on one of those sentences calling Trump, the “stupidest, most criminal person to ever run for president” I’m all there for it. 😂
I was pleased to learn she did this. I didn't watch, and won't be watching again, but good for her for making a public statement. I'll miss watching her show, as well as Lawrence's.
Rachel is a Brilliant orator! She respectfully, and effortlessly told MSNBC that she disapproved of how the “new management” handled her peers in their effort to bow to Krasnov. While also reminding them that they need her. She does not need them! Well done!
“…you’ve built something truly incredible. MSNBC is now one of the most engaged brands in all of television,” Kutler told staff. “We ended 2024 as number one in cable news on both YouTube and TikTok.”
Not now that you’ve fired these anchors!! @msnbc.com @nbcnews.com
While what’s happening at MSNBC is difficult to watch, stuff like this has happened in media forever. In this case it’s important to note that MSNBC has lost over 60% of its audience since November, and no media company can survive long in that scenario. They had to react fast.
MSNBC started losing their audience well before Trump won and it accelerated after the election. It appears their research (and the audience) told them they were leaning too far left. Unlike Fox, the left audience tends to be less like lemmings and have multiple political beliefs.
It’s important to note that contrary to a point Maddow made, Joy Reid is being replaced by three minorities on a rotating basis, two of which are women. So this is not a move against diversity.
Like Fox, MSNBC made a move to cater to a political leaning and now that audience has abandoned them.
It’s also important to note that throughout history, white people have torn down Black figureheads in front of their coworkers. This humbles and humiliate them so that they do not step out of line.
In our times in her field, the way that that looks to me is that @joyannreid.bsky.social … 1/2
Most folks stopped watching after Mika and Joe went to Maralago to kiss Trump ass. Their ratings are in the toilet, but Joy's were rebounding. So why would Joy be cancelled and not Morning Joe whose fault this is?
MSNBC is as far from “hard news” as Fox is. Just a different direction. And “whipping and humiliating” a black host? How? If the replacement was a white anchor I might give some credit to your thought. But that’s not what’s happening. Media companies live or die on audience and they dictate action.
Yes, it leans left. Yes media companies rely on ad revenue based on metrics. She was a top 10 show with improving metrics. That only solidifies the argument that she should not have been cut.
And try looking at my analogy from a minority standpoint and see how that changes your perspective?
I don’t disagree that Morning Joe has run its course for a large part of the audience. That happened long before 2024. And it was a pretty dumb move
For the flagship show of a network targeting the left to be seen kissing Trump’s ring. Guessing it would be too expensive to fire them.
Correct 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
R E S P E C T is
the word & action nowadays is missing by Maga followers.
Repost and repost her because what she's saying is true & value. Every day 💩🛜📴 is in gov. we're in the hands of the enemy of Democracy and freedom to speak out loud what we think/not agree with/etc
I figured she would have something to say and I wasn’t disappointed. She is the most intelligent cable host of our time with a gift for finding historical perspective like no other. I really love her show and I know she has some influence on that network.
I'm sick of the crazy, ignorant blustering from a rich old fool and his minions. I know that everyone on earth is part of the same beautiful wheat colored world. Only shades exist, and that should never have mattered. We are all family. Love your family and come into balance. -raised right.
Agree! Trust her to speak truth to power. Rachel Maddow is an outstanding and exemplary journalist. Always look forward to her show for the sheer amount of homework and the humanity in her work. It’s rare to see someone with that kind of platform and the sincerity to match. 😍
They went to Oxford together (Andy met his wife there too), went o each others weddings, sat together at Biden's inauguration, and they have remained close friends all these years.
I absolutely agree, but standing up while continuing to work for MSNBC will not amount to much. Rachel could go anywhere - even on her own. It’s time for serious resignations in protest.
She should’ve stood up last night after her diatribe against her place of employment and walked off the set. We need her. The country needs her. She should use her voice and then back it up.
Joe and Mika could be let go. I won’t watch them. Joy is fantastic. Katie Phang is good. Hearing their voices has helped me understand more of our history. Challenged me to think differently.
I've enjoyed Joy Reid immensely. I pray better and bigger opportunities come her way. It's tragic in how the press is being attacked and mis-labeled. Unfortunately, Joe & Mika capitulated in order to avoid further trouble with Felon47 - so they sold their soul. I pray the others hold the line!
I never thought I would #SeeTheDay when the fierce MSNBC media platform would #BowTheKnee to the demands of an
Autocrat
Dictator
Despot
Wannabe KING
aligned with America’s foreign adversaries/enemies/dictatorships across the 🌏
I’m #CallingThemOut • the growing list of media outlets who have turned a #BlindEye to the protections afforded the #FreePress under the
#FirstAmendment…
#Duty
#Responsibility
#Honor
#CowardsTheyAre
#NoMoment in the History of the constitutional Republic has been more fraught with #Danger
The #FreePress in NOT
Meeting the #DireEmergency
#RepublicInPeril
But being jerked on the leash of the felonious #Despot in a wholly #dangerous direction
🚨🚨🚨
They are corporate media. All they care about is ratings, advertisers, profit, and spinning talking points. Sadly without these news casters that got fired they will be diet Fox news. A lot of our issues right now are because they rather have better ratings then actually fight for democracy.
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Now Trumpism threatens their income.
So... turn it around.
Become FOX light.
It's kowtowing, bending over, for Trump and fascism and everything UGLY that is happening to our country right now.
Rather than fighting for democracy and truth and inclusion.
In her position with her experience she would tell us options on what to do. That’s what she does re maga.
So when maga is now running the company where she works, what does she do? Because she didn’t say the why it was done.
nice nym by the way. You got here first ;) 😉
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/msnbc-rebecca-kutler-president-1236134699/
Not now that you’ve fired these anchors!! @msnbc.com @nbcnews.com
Particularly the Last @joyannreid.bsky.social
I don’t always stay up to watch Rachel (I’ve got very early alarm ⏰ clock)
Very glad that she gave time to speak her authentic mind
🙏 💙 🧿
Like Fox, MSNBC made a move to cater to a political leaning and now that audience has abandoned them.
In our times in her field, the way that that looks to me is that @joyannreid.bsky.social … 1/2
Her numbers were turning. it should not have happened.
MSNBC suffered a contraction after the election b/c it was hard news.
And nobody delivered hard news better than Joy.
And try looking at my analogy from a minority standpoint and see how that changes your perspective?
For the flagship show of a network targeting the left to be seen kissing Trump’s ring. Guessing it would be too expensive to fire them.
R E S P E C T is
the word & action nowadays is missing by Maga followers.
Repost and repost her because what she's saying is true & value. Every day 💩🛜📴 is in gov. we're in the hands of the enemy of Democracy and freedom to speak out loud what we think/not agree with/etc
Thank you @maddow.msnbc.com
We will carry each other through this bullshit! I’m always here!
My late veteran kick arse big brother died from AIDs, yet another selfless warrior thing of
There is a middle (in age and in perspective), and we need to enable it before Schumer bores us all to death posting about the price of tomatoes.
She won my trust on Air America fighting W. & she has never lost it.
She’s #MamaDuck so I will follow her wherever she goes.
I have no such fealty to @msnbc.com.
I’m not religious (am spiritual) but damn, I can’t help think how he mostly fits the definition of the Anti-Christ.
Some great journalists are on Substack and Mastodon.
Autocrat
Dictator
Despot
Wannabe KING
aligned with America’s foreign adversaries/enemies/dictatorships across the 🌏
They exist to be unaccountable. That what they are for.
You misunderstand…
I’m #CallingThemOut • the growing list of media outlets who have turned a #BlindEye to the protections afforded the #FreePress under the
#FirstAmendment…
#Duty
#Responsibility
#Honor
#CowardsTheyAre
making a list of media to be avoided is an action, not a feeling.
in other words.. never mind, carry on.
when I 👀 which way #TheWindWasBlowing
Will Rachel Maddow be next?#Targeted by the Despot #TearingDown the *constitutional #Republic?
Will we witness another MSNBC #BetrayalOfAmerica
#Duty protected by the
1st Amendment?
#Disgraceful
The #FreePress in NOT
Meeting the #DireEmergency
#RepublicInPeril
But being jerked on the leash of the felonious #Despot in a wholly #dangerous direction
🚨🚨🚨