Rumor has it there are more cuts coming at MSNBC. Given that most of her staff was just laid off, I assume Rachel will be one of the soon-to-be-departed.
Lester Holt will be taking on the full-time position on Dateline. He might not be the face of the evening news, but he will still be there. I think I heard Capehart was taking on something else in MSNBC. Don’t know about the rest.
I used to regularly watch these hosts. I stopped watching CNN and MSNBC because it's all Mango Moron all the time and he makes me sick. Regardless, MSNBC is shooting itself in the foot. PBS Newshour is my go to for US and world news from an American perspective. CBC and BBC otherwise.
Joy Reid was replaced by another black woman, a black man & a half cuban woman. The 2 frontrunners for Lester Holts desk (after he resigned) are Latino men. Jen Paski took Alex Witt's slot because Witt's viewership was significantly lower, and that is their only competitive time slot against Fox.
I don't watch any corp news because it's all the same shouty go nowhere, solve nothing rage machine to me... That said, we should wait for all the information, the full lineup & not ignore that there are people of color replacing people of color. Facts first.
As an avid MSNBC viewer since 2016, I feel like these trending posts are rather irresponsible and misleading. It is more strategical move than racially motivated. These are replacing Joy Reid's slot. None of them are white. The many reports on this are readily available if you look it up.
Thanks for pointing this out. It's driving me crazy. Jonathan and Ayman are getting a new show (splitting the anchoring, I believe), and I really like Symone & Michael, although I'll miss Katie's show.
I will miss her show, but I'm glad she'll still be with the network. I look forward to her subbing in for Ari Melber and (hopefully) eventually replacing him.
This is why I love Bluesky. Because in todays world it's always hard to know what is real or not when it comes to the news. I always appreciate real information! The simple fact that you can peacefully post your input, and no one has called you a name, is why we are all here.
Absolutely correct. Additionally, Lester Holt (who works at NBC, not MSNBC) keeps getting thrown in with this trending topic. There is zero reporting from any reliable source that Lester Holt was 'let go' / fired.
why is everybody angry about Joy Reid's show being cancelled? From what i can tell, there was a network change and some show's had to go. I read that Joy's ratings weren't as high as the others in the lineup.
No I don't. Shakeups happen all the time. The reporting I find is that her show didn't have the ratings. Is there something else? Can you link to it because I can't find it.
right, but for what reason? As far as I can tell, all people in that image are staying except joy. Lester is doing Dateline full time, Katie & Alex are staying as correspondents, and Aymen & Jonathan are moving to different slots. I just don't see them getting rid of Joy for her color.
Hmm. As far as I can tell they are replacing her with 3 people of color?I would think it is more about ratings in that time slot. Isn't that prime time? I love Joy Reid and I have no doubt she'll land someplace even better, but I'd be upset if it was something other than ratings.
I'm not sure who you're commenting to, but if it's me I assure you I'm no Trumper nor "all white" with his fascist take over. Some advice? Look in the mirror, racism goes both ways...
Take off your rose colored glasses. The white anchors stayed the ✅multicultural ones got turfed. ❎
If you aren’t part of the solution you are part of the problem. You don’t have to be maga to wear rose colored glasses. Fine people on both sides…..
Why isn’t #RebeccaKutler being called out publicly for this. She’s the new President who ordered the cuts. She was at CNN while they were bending over for the fat orange felon and she’s a lilly white woman
They got rid of harmless Lester Holt? Oh, right. Trump accused him of cooking questions when he moderated a presidential debate once. Got it. Vengeance.
I really wonder what it's gonna be like for the remaining White anchors (Maddow, Psaki, O'Donnell, et al) knowing they are now going to be used as part of the Whiteness of the "new & iPrOvEd MSNBC
Think they're all gonna show up for work and do as they're told?
Maybe Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and Marc Cuban Can get together and start their own network. FORWARD-ACTION-SENSORLESS- THINKING network. The facts network. Off the top of my head. Splash your ideas and repost.
Patriots cancel cable. Cable subscriptions fund the shitstream media (fox, cnn, etc) whether or not you watch their shows. Plenty to watch on your tv via internet and Roku
Hitting the oligarchs in their wallets is THE most effective way to affect their insidious, subversive behavior, i fact the only way to bring them to heel.
Yup, I canceled Facebook, X, Instagrams and am on Blue sky and Substack. AP for news. I sleep pretty good. I alone won't make the difference but it's my personal contribution.
This genius has Amazon credit cards. Will be looking for ways to close them without taking too much of a hit to my scores. Canceling Subscribe and Saves a handful at a time.
You know that guy you used to work with? Can he still do that Vulcan death grip thing with his hand? If yes and you're still in touch with his family, tell them they're needed and send one of them to Pennsylvania Avenue, DC.
This was what I suggested to Katie Phang. I think Mark Cuban and others should bring the money and find the operations know how. Bring in Joy Ann Reid and others etc. make its focus investigative, fact finding and truth. Relentlessly. Relentless News Network.
Having rich people control the news is the problem. They can help promote it and get it access to different cable providers and build their own streaming service. But it should be run by the producers and TV personalities.
Agree. Flip side here: Cuban and others. Set up as independent and find ways to fund it. The competitors are all deep in the money. So it’s about start up and competition. Someone like @mcuban.bsky.social I think could lend the business gravitas and help sort through and ensure this works.
A group of reporters who've left WaPo and other papers have gotten together on substack and effectively started their own paper (The Contrarian), and they already have 500k subscribers
The tech exists to start low cost news, not with the same polish as cable, but with a lot more integrity
It is a good strategy. But these TV professionals know how to recreate a TV network too. And if they work together with the other reporters (print, indie, retired, YouTubers, and new) it could turn out pretty well.
Medias Touch Network, MTN, is on fire + would probably welcome them. But, I’m guessing these folks made BIG $ and aren’t in it for pure journalistic purposes.
Everyone should look up "Schriftleitergesetz," what it translates to in English, when it started, and how it started. You can guess where it started...
Cuban LOVES Trump’s plan to extort Ukraine. I don’t love Cuban. There are only 800 billionaires in the US. As of February 2025, Forbes estimates his net worth to be $5.7 billion. That’s $5,700 million. There is no honest or moral way to earn that much money. https://bsky.app/profile/mcuban.bsky.social/post/3lipk253ink2a
Believe me there's rich people who hate djt passionately! Look on YT for coach Greg Popovich (sp?) response to djt running again. It's Classic Coach Pop. He has always hated djt! Pop had a mild stroke late last year. So he's not coaching the Spurs right now. Great man. @mcuban.bsky.social's cool too
Billionaire Mark Cuban LOVES the fact that Trump is trying to extort Ukraine out of their natural resources.
Popovich isn’t even close to being a billionaire. In the US, it takes $1000 million to make someone a billionaire. There are only 800 billionaires in the US, & they’re all predators.
I understand. I differentiate billionaires from people who simply have more money than I do. A billionaire is a different order of magnitude. I don’t believe there is anything a person can legitimately do to achieve that amount of wealth.
Second point directly says: to get those minerals we need to kick out russia. Nothing bad in that
Point uno says less depends on china is good, which is true, and helping Ukraine rebuild industries and develop new ones to extract its wealth is good! The only bad part is trump, a damn bad part
Lester Holt was fired?? What for? The last time I watched NBC Nightly News (and ALL Mainstream Media Channels) was on Nov 6, 2024, and he was bowing and scraping to the trump cabal then!
I can’t believe that these media companies did not realize how negatively this could impact them after watching what happened to Target recently compared to Costco who upheld their policies.
So I guess I just don't money that much but if I was a star on MSNVICHY I would tell them to take my $25 million and shove it together with the contract.
I disagree to some extent. MSNBC has been a good source of information, albeit with opinion journalism mixed in. I’ve appreciated Rachel Maddow’s in depth analyses of issues. Right now, I’m watching Trump answering questions from the press while British PM Starmer is mostly silent. On TV.
Please don't spread misinformation. Only Joy was let go. The others either got different shows, timeslots, or were made analysts. Ali Velshi's show is expanding. Sanders-Townsend, Menendez and Steele will be doing daily primetime.
@mcuban.bsky.social : Any chance you could speak with some fellow entrepreneurs who might be interested in funding this? It is a great idea and the viewership would be off the charts. Recruit these folks plus Rachel Maddow and Jim Acosta and you’d have a great core.
Don’t forget the press! In DC we now have all 3 papers catering to the MAGA 10%. The other 90% of us would like real journalism. People like @jonathancapehart.bsky.social are amazing writers and journalists. Maybe Bluesky needs to expand?
Time for a new network, pretty soon all news will be like Fox unless someone does something to get the real truth out. The lies are loud, they are heard, they are believed. It’s time to rise or the fall will be hard. We need someone brave and fearless who won’t kiss the ring.
Also, I can't speak for all of them but Joy Reid sort of asked for this when she was constantly shit mouthing Joe Biden and the Democrats at the worst possible time. Remember the F bomb she dropped about Biden over imagined slights at Gaza? Being politically stupid has consequences.
I've been dubious about her ever since her problematic homophobic blog posts surfaced (which she never had a satisfactory explanation for other than 'I don't recall posting these').
How about a new station called DEIBC that is a nonprofit corporation funded by the public with a mission to be courageously factual?
Billionaire funded news are focused on profits with a bias to ratings at the expense of truth. Opinions are cheap. And they have to be profitable pc opinions.
In the age of the internet, a good journalist is capable of making a name for themselves without a major network. If they have the gumption, they should band together and start a grassroots media source.
Man, it sure does suck that since a journalist changed employers, they can no longer speak to anyone they ever spoke to again for connections and insights.
Too bad no one in History has ever used their name to gain a strong investment base for their business.
That awkward moment when your reading comprehension is terrible. Racism got them fired. It has nothing to do with their ability to be a journalist moving forward.
Bun of journos from the Denver Post got fired by the hedge fund that bought it. They kickstarted the Colorado Sun instead and it’s still going strong. Experts pooling resources together with support from the public can go far.
"For context I inject some reality. Air America Radio and other liberal/progressive radio networks came and failed. We're witnessing the decay and failure of MSNBC right now. There doesn't seem to be a viable market for liberal content. Sad...but true?"
What exactly is "liberal content"? "Liberals" can't even seem to agree on what a "liberal" is. The "left" is absurdly fractured and disingenuous. It's why these things fail, it's how we consistently lose to the "right". It's why those networks failed. Too left, not enough left, fake left, neo left..
We are like a herd of feral cats. Fascists are programmed to fall in line and follow. Liberals go their own way.... frequently high. We're REALLY watching fascists fall in line right now. It's scary actually. I've read German history.
It's how the right has always operated. Gawd, gays, guns, an "enemy". Once it was "commies" now it's "illegals". Use those it matters not what else you say or do or don't, they'll follow. The "left" is a box of glass shards, incapable and unwilling to make anything coherent at all.
In other words, Maddow has NO debt and lots of liquidable resources to participate pro bono.
I’d bet that over the years, she’s stashed over $100M.
Since her staff had been disintegrated, her show can’t be what it was.
Overt Racism! WTF.
I'd be most familiar with Alex Wagner and Joy Reid.
No justification I can imagine for them being axed for doing their jobs.
Fuck Felon⁴⁷'s Regime and the Corporate acquiescence.
Disgusting behavior.
Best wishes to these Journalists with Dignity.
Those 2 are absolutely disgusting!! She sure showed her value, NONE. Him literally screaming after they came back from the Bend and Kiss session pretty much said everything we needed to know about him. Both just disgusting.
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This is just a fake nonsense meme from the "everything is racism" crowd.
This post by george is false. Only one was "let go."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDEI
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html
such talent
Many women are turning to other women or transient to make.
I was thinking this when I heard Joy Reid was fired.
Have @jimacosta.bsky.social and @donlemonofficial.bsky.social join them.
It'll be awesome.
Smart. Animated. Articulate. Incisive. On point. I will miss her!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/monicamercuri/2025/02/25/why-is-lester-holt-leaving-nbc-nightly-news-heres-who-could-replace-him/
If you aren’t part of the solution you are part of the problem. You don’t have to be maga to wear rose colored glasses. Fine people on both sides…..
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I don't believe them.
That a false meme was posted by George?
That actually is pretty upsetting.
They all still work at MSNBC / NBC except one
The network took adverse employment actions predicated on their race.
🙄"everything is racism" is what drives independents away from the democratic party in droves
Or your saying that pulling air time isn't an adverse action?
It said they were "let go." They weren't - except joy.
This is obvious!!
The entire post is false.
seriously can somebody respond? I can't believe that's happening.
I really wonder what it's gonna be like for the remaining White anchors (Maddow, Psaki, O'Donnell, et al) knowing they are now going to be used as part of the Whiteness of the "new & iPrOvEd MSNBC
Think they're all gonna show up for work and do as they're told?
"All signs point to yes"
So, why not?
Only one of them was actually "let go."
Stop getting your news from Memes.
Got it
There are six people in that fake meme.
One no longer works for MSNBC.
forward-action-community-terrorism
“We’re in your community and that’s a fact!”
And then we just blow up rich people and corporations
#PatriotsCancelCable
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Free man here 🙌😉
Hitting the oligarchs in their wallets is THE most effective way to affect their insidious, subversive behavior, i fact the only way to bring them to heel.
every person doing the right thing helps IMO.
Also, cancelled Amazon today. Au revoir!
The tech exists to start low cost news, not with the same polish as cable, but with a lot more integrity
MSNBC’s new owner is disgusting.
They left some terrible people on air
And took off some very good ones.
Racism, not merit, led to these decisions.
I could see them holding panels together - like they did in the NY theatre
At least until they land the right job
Mark Cuban.
I'm not going to listen to a podcast.
Popovich isn’t even close to being a billionaire. In the US, it takes $1000 million to make someone a billionaire. There are only 800 billionaires in the US, & they’re all predators.
Jesus Christ.
Point uno says less depends on china is good, which is true, and helping Ukraine rebuild industries and develop new ones to extract its wealth is good! The only bad part is trump, a damn bad part
Some of my FAVS are in this group.
I’ll MAKE A DONATION
@pbsnews.org
So disappointed
Youtube.
Billionaire funded news are focused on profits with a bias to ratings at the expense of truth. Opinions are cheap. And they have to be profitable pc opinions.
Too bad no one in History has ever used their name to gain a strong investment base for their business.
Too bad these folks can't do that
Nice try though.
The rest of the industry seems to be giving lip to ass service to oligarchs, white-power betas.
Izzie Zenning.
Get all these folks and have Rachel, Lawrence, and Jim Acosta (CNN) join and watch MSNBC go out of f****** business in a month.
It's a nice draft pick, though. 😆
I’d bet that over the years, she’s stashed over $100M.
Since her staff had been disintegrated, her show can’t be what it was.
Get going.
A MORE DISGUSTING THING I HAVE NEVER SEEN 🔥🔥😡😡⚡
I'd be most familiar with Alex Wagner and Joy Reid.
No justification I can imagine for them being axed for doing their jobs.
Fuck Felon⁴⁷'s Regime and the Corporate acquiescence.
Disgusting behavior.
Best wishes to these Journalists with Dignity.
Only one was actually "let go."